Love Your Flaws..

Many years ago, I recall when I was still in high school and sat beside a certain girl who looked truly amazing to me, I secretly admired her facial structure and her freckles especially as they made her look unique and very beautiful.

Truth was, I never told her how beautiful she was, I only looked at her often and took my eyes until one day we had a session in school about "self-esteem" I remember our teacher gave each of us a piece of paper to write out what we love most about ourselves and what we hated about ourselves without writing out the name on the paper.

I wrote that I loved my dentition, my hair length and colour and I hated the colours of my eyes as I never had a very white eye like many of them in the class. _{My eyes are the cutest little thing rn.}

For this story, I will change my teacher's name to Mrs. Bee, after submitting our paper to her, she picked them up and began reading each of them in front of the class.

Immediately I heard "I hate my freckles" I knew it was Beulah who had written that, as she was the only girl with freckles in our class.

"That's Beulah!" I interrupted, "and that's the most beautiful thing about her, "I uttered.

"I have been admiring her facial structure for I long time, especially her freckles, they are scanty and beautiful" I further added.

I could sense the shock on Bealah's face, I bet she never thought anyone who be attracted to her "flaws."

"I felt embarrassed each time you looked at me, I felt you were focusing on my freckles and how odd they made me feel." Beulah managed to reply to me and then I realised I felt so too, when people look at me, maybe they are just focusing on my flaws as well.

Mrs Bee changed our mindset that very day and taught us that we are beautifully made and specially made in God's image, "Have you taken your time to see how beautiful your eyelashes are? She turned toward me and asked and that day we all realized that there's beauty in our imperfections.

That thing you do not like about yourself might be what attracted someone to you, so love your perfect imperfections.

Why am I narrating this story today? Well, I and one of my not-so-little friends got talking today, she's probably in her mid-teens and then I realised she has some insecure feelings about her looks, especially her body and height.

She told me how most of her classmates body shame her in school and I remembered my story just to teach her that we are all unique and awesomely made.

To top it up, I brought out my phone and played the Bruno Mars song to her.