“Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself," Coco Chanel
Chaos is the only see when I look out my window anymore. People are upset, they feel hatred towards others, towards the nation, we are not acting as one anymore. Race is beginning to be segregated again, females are feeling like they are not as able as men, and our sense of a normal conversation results in insulting one another rather than lifting them up.
Do we even know how to feel beautiful anymore? It seems like we aren’t reminded by our beauty. We look in the mirror and see hate. Exactly what that stranger on the street pointed out. We, instead hear “go back to your home country!” “You’re just a girl…” and “whatever you say, gay boy,” and our new self talk becomes the insults off the street.
The world is cruel, and we are becoming cruel to ourselves as well. I hear, see, and witness people everyday expressing how they are not good enough for something or their body would never pull off an outfit that they wanted to wear.
It’s sad. It’s sad that now the normal thing to do is put someone down because you do not like one thing about them-like it even matters to you. They are male and wearing pink? That affects you how? She is a woman competing for the same job title? You should be scared for your own sake in getting the job with an equivalent IQ level as you.
We are so quick to hate that we forget to find the beauty in ourselves, in other people, and in the world. For my final project for my photography class, I am attempting to reverse this view on life. I am titling it, “The I Am Beautiful Project”. We are all beautiful; skin color, religious preferences, sexual orientation, or anything else that we as humans get discriminated against.
If we started to believe in one another, saw the beauty in them, and in ourselves we would see just how wonderful life and people can really be.
I am beautiful because I can see the beauty in the world, what makes you beautiful? #IAmBeautifulProject
