You are Unique

What do you see when you look in the mirror?

We are constantly bombarded (by tv, radio, newspapers, magazines, friends, family, shops, random strangers, spam email – lets just call them the mob) with the idea that we are not good enough, that there is something wrong with us the way we are.

Don't believe me?

All those articles on dieting are telling you not beautiful the way you are.

All those adverts saying if you eat this one foodstuff for the next month then you’ll drop a dress size are telling you that you need to change to be stunning.

Every time a friend says “ooh I shouldn’t eat that”, they’re giving you the idea that if you do, there is something wrong with you.

Every billboard that displays an impossibly skinny (and most likely airbrushed) model, makes you think that if you don’t look like that then you’re not gorgeous.

I’m sure you can think of hundreds more examples of when the mob implies that you are not fantastic, you are not beautiful, and that you should try to change yourself to fit in with an impossible view of what we should be/look like/do.

But why should we listen? You are YOU. You are unique. There will never be another YOU in the whole of humankind. Ever. And there will never be another Me. Doesn’t that make us fantastic? Doesn’t that make us incredible? Doesn’t that make us absolutely amazingly beautiful?

Don’t waste your time feeling anything but gorgeous. And spread the word: that YOU are beautiful.

Random Acts of Kindness

Hello.

So.

This is my space to talk about anything that I feel like talking about.

Largely I will probably talk about a mission that's been brewing in my mind for sometime now. I think it started the day I dropped a twix into a postbox.

My mission is to bring a little bit more love and sparkliness into the world, or at least into my little corner of it, through Random Acts of Kindness.

This one particular day in the middle of December it was very cold, and icy, and snowy, and I was feeling sorry for anyone who had to go outside. So I dropped some chocolate into the postbox for the postman to find.

I don't know if the postman was just confused (though I did stick a post it on the twix saying "Have a nice day :)" to try and alleviate some of the possibly inevitable confusion), or maybe they thought it was a prank, or maybe, just maybe, it made them smile. And if it did that, then mission accomplished.