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Why Looks Matter & How It Can Transform Your Reality
Self-love & self-affirmations are the two most popular topics on social media but they suck.
If I ask, how do you think you look, what would you say?
And please, don’t give me those cliché answers like ‘I accept myself as I am.’ ‘I am everything I need to be.’ I don’t want to hear your self-affirmations that were actually written by someone else and have nothing to do with you.
I want to hear, what do you think of yourself?
I will tell you one thing, however harsh it may sound, your self-affirmations on a happy Monday morning have nothing to do. Your self-image in the darkest moments of your life defines what you truly think of yourself and until you don’t change that, you cannot change your life.
For example; I used to think I am a confident person who is secure in herself. But hey, I was wrong. When I used to see girls prettier than me, I used to feel intimated by them like they are somehow superior to me. And then as little Renuka used to do, I would find corners to hide myself or keep looking at them until I can find some weakness in them to feel superior.
As pathetic as it may sound, this is how reality works. I don’t paint myself in false self-affirmations. I…
