"Imperfection is beauty" - Marilyn Monroe "What I want is authenticy - creativity and purity, I want to see the way you wear your scars" - Toni Mahfud I've always been a visual kind of person. I like beautiful things and beautiful people. And this attitude is probably my major personality flaw. But that was never the flaw I cared much about or the flaw I wanted to fix. My major insecurity has always been my chin - almost non-existent most of the time but when I laugh I magically got even two of them, a beautiful double-chin. Come on, that's just not cool, why can't I just have one normal, proportional chin? I felt treated unfair by mother nature and was kind of unsatisfied with myself everytime I looked into the mirror. Last year in summer, this dissatisfaction reached a point where I decided to do something against this injustice and I visited a plastic surgeon. He specialized in chin surgery and I was quickly convinced by the before/after pictures he showed me. The decision was made: I'll get plastic surgery in summer 2017! Since then I started working, saving every Euro for this surgery. By now, I almost got the money together. And I will spend it. But on travelling. On events. On cool birthday presents. On lots of Cicken Nuggets. On the Lord of the Rings collector's edition. On clothes of course. Not on changing my face. Why the sudden turnaround? There were several factors that triggered this change of mind. There's my mom for example. She was against this surgery from the start and constantly trying to stir me from my resolve. I usually don't really listen to her attempts but one phrase really got me:"Plastic surgery is a statement that expresses the intolerance of imperfection and this statement is definitely in conflict with your intellect." And damn she is right. I never thought of plastic surgery as an act of egoism but it actually is. Who am I to define beauty? And who am I to let society's beauty standards influence me and my perception of myself? I don't want to be that egoistic and I don't want to be that weak. I know its a classic but nobody is perfect, everyone has their little flaws and insecurities. And it's good like this. The world would be such a boring place if we would all look like those Instagram models with their perfect bodies, hair on fleek, face on fleek, everything on fleek. Seriously, screw that. I am still new to this 'writing encouraging posts'-thing and if I didn't manage to convince you that you are hella beautiful, check out these videos by We Are Hairy People. Lots of love // Nele
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