The Importance of Confidence
I know I'm pretty. I know I'm beautiful. I know my body looks good. Trust me, I know. However, there was a time in my life where I didn't realize I was, and I would rather look for people to reassure me of my beauty, no matter what it would take. I guess you could say I had a thirst for compliments, and I would eat them up from whoever spat them out. Be it about my body, about my chubby cheeks, or my eyes, I would just get filled up with all these compliments but, somehow, they would pass through one ear, my brain would deny them, and be pushed out the other. I was so in denial of my beauty because at the time, not many people would notice it, and it started to cause me to do weird things just to be noticed. I would maybe put on a little more make up, dress in really short things or wear flashy things, just really weird things just so I could get noticed and be reminded that I was "hot" or "gorgeous", not realizing those compliments were demoralizing m...