I am surely not BEAUTIFUL. !!!
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HAPPY READING.
The statement made by an adult to a
teenager who was barely 14-15 years old at that time, did hunt her for some
years.
Adult : "Tmro ghar kata
ho?"
Teenager :"Ktm"
Adult: "saxxai hora?, teii pani
esto kaali ?"
The born and brought-up in Kathmandu
was stereotyped being ugly just because she has dusky complexion. Adding to it
one of her friend said, “Why didn’t you say that you are from
Dharan.".
The very turmoil had started back
then.
Not just that teenager, but many of
us must have been stereotyped by some man-made beauty standards.
At least i had been, i still am
actually. I used to get affected by it, but no more. Some very common lines
most of us must have been through are "ramri nai xe,tara ali kali
ho","Ali goro vayeko vaye kati ramri hunthi"," Kali Kali
hissi pareki xe". Why is ramri being synonym to not being kaali?, Why
are they constantly reminding that teen that, she would have been beautiful if
she had been fair!!!. Why is it so?
Due to such husky mentality, many
teenagers were affected then, are affected now and will always be affected.
Their constant chase to meet the so called beauty standard will not only ruin
their childhood memories but also will tend them towards being little more
insecure about themselves. And it will surely take them some years to overcome
it and to realize how beautiful they are.
Every individual is beautiful. So am
i, so are you. I might be the most beautiful for some and ugliest to many but
that doesn’t really matter. What matters is, was i beautiful beyond the
stereotyped beauty standards?
I surely was/am and will be!!
Stop being insecure by some man made assumptions.
Nothing deserves your energy if it's draining you.
You are beautiful,
with dusky skin,
with pimpled face,
with padded skin,
with a beautiful heart,
You are beautiful,
No matter what they say.
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