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| The Beauty inside my head |
Finding Your Beauty
A few days
ago, after I gave a lecture, a young woman sat waiting for everyone else to ask
questions, get hugs, take pictures or just say thanks so she could talk to me
alone.
“I’m having a hard time finding my
beauty,” she told me.
It took me a
moment to actually realize what she had said. She was 18, tall and gorgeous, but
she didn’t know it.
She told me
she wished she had the guts to wear her hair short like mine. I smiled and said
that all it required was a really good hairstylist who knew how to let your
hair and your head take the lead.
She said
that she wished she was as confident as I was and I told her that it required
that she love herself; and that’s when the tears flowed.
Pay close attention to me this morning
because this post is not just about this beautiful young woman, it is about all
of us.
Somewhere in our youth, we compare
ourselves to images in the media, to other kids at school and to some boy or
girl who told us what they thought they wanted when they didn’t even know.
Now, we look
back at those pictures of ourselves and wonder how we could have ever thought that
we were too fat, too ugly, too whatever.
I will tell you what I told that
young woman; you will never truly love another soul until you fully love your
own.
Look past
your hair, your butt, your nose and see your SELF.
We are
beautifully and wonderfully made.
I cut my
hair off because the dread locks were not helping in this battle against
migraines. As a result, my head feels better and I am beautiful---still. Inside
my head is this amazing brain that knows how to heal itself. It gives me a
signal each morning to get up and write about what only it and God knows
and I am reborn, renewed and beautiful.
Today, truly look at
who you are and are becoming and see your own beauty before you see it in
another soul.
Be you, be well, be
Beautiful
Bertice Berry, PhD.
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