In the midst of my youth, perfection meant everything. The sense of inferiority creeped around every corner of my life, the social pressures, the culture pressures, the personal pressures. The issue of self-acceptance began from a young age, as I often used to sit alone in the vast woods behind my house, pondering on the inevitable, ominous thought, am I good enough for the world? With the ideal image of nature surrounding me, I wished I could hold as much beauty and perfection as the world around me. Every green blade of grass swaying, golden leaf falling, every bluejay’s chirp, the colorful rustle of the breeze, they taunt my imperfections and my flaws. From the atrocious thoughts of my mind, comes the issue of self-acceptance.
Although to be comfortable with self image is an uneasy affair at best, it seems apparent to me now that within nature, each …show more content…
We cannot continue on the idea value and worth lies in the hands of a few who control society, the idea that in order to yield any significance, perfection must exist. We, ourselves, have the ability to determine our worth. To have the sense of the ability to accept oneself is to potentially have the ability to do essentially anything and everything: the ability to appreciate flaws, to love oneself, to speak with confidence, and to feel proud of one’s efforts. To lack self-acceptance, is to be forced into the dark back alley, of little resources to hold, with so little perception of the world and so much vulnerability to self-deception.
We cannot drown ourselves in self-deception, with each encounter seeking imperfections and faults, draining our wills and our entities. To free ourselves of self-deception, we can seek self-acceptance, away from the expectations of others, away from the bonds of society, and towards our sense of
Although to be comfortable with self image is an uneasy affair at best, it seems apparent to me now that within nature, each …show more content…
We cannot continue on the idea value and worth lies in the hands of a few who control society, the idea that in order to yield any significance, perfection must exist. We, ourselves, have the ability to determine our worth. To have the sense of the ability to accept oneself is to potentially have the ability to do essentially anything and everything: the ability to appreciate flaws, to love oneself, to speak with confidence, and to feel proud of one’s efforts. To lack self-acceptance, is to be forced into the dark back alley, of little resources to hold, with so little perception of the world and so much vulnerability to self-deception.
We cannot drown ourselves in self-deception, with each encounter seeking imperfections and faults, draining our wills and our entities. To free ourselves of self-deception, we can seek self-acceptance, away from the expectations of others, away from the bonds of society, and towards our sense of