Saturday, June 30, 2012
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Friday, June 22, 2012
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Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Being Me
I've made the decision to not care what anyone thinks of me anymore. I'm going to "let my freak flag fly" and be myself. Because it's true when people say if you can't be yourself around someone then they're not your true friend.
Love,
Natalie
Love,
Natalie
Monday, June 18, 2012
Sunday, June 17, 2012
Saturday, June 16, 2012
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Tuesday, June 12, 2012
You Are Beautiful
Have you ever just looked at a picture of yourself and felt terrible or felt beautiful, because I have. I feel like this may be a common thing among girls, but it's something that everyone will struggle with. No matter how old or young, your gender, or how confident you may be, there will most likely be a time in your life when you feel like you are ugly. That time for me is now.
Of course in the back of my mind I know this is untrue and I have all these amazing friends and family around me telling me how pretty I am and how thin, but the only things I can see are the things that make me stand out and be different from the preconceived notion of what is "pretty." I have a million freckles, frizzy, curly hair, my stomach sticks out a little, and I have large lips. None of these are bad things and none of them I hate, in fact a times I love them, but at other times I find them to be annoying and bothersome.
So, What I want you take take form this I guess is that it's okay to be insecure about things, in fact I'm pretty sure it's human nature, but I want to you to also know that you don't need to change the way you look just because someone doesn't like you. They don't deserve you if they want you to change and I know that's hard to follow through on and that sometimes those people who want to change us make us feel really special, but after you change they won't want you because you'll have become a different person.
It's hard to be true to oneself with so many things telling you this is what's beautiful at the moment, but remember that someone is going to love you flaws. And until you find your perfect someone I'll be here to talk.
Love,
Natalie
Of course in the back of my mind I know this is untrue and I have all these amazing friends and family around me telling me how pretty I am and how thin, but the only things I can see are the things that make me stand out and be different from the preconceived notion of what is "pretty." I have a million freckles, frizzy, curly hair, my stomach sticks out a little, and I have large lips. None of these are bad things and none of them I hate, in fact a times I love them, but at other times I find them to be annoying and bothersome.
So, What I want you take take form this I guess is that it's okay to be insecure about things, in fact I'm pretty sure it's human nature, but I want to you to also know that you don't need to change the way you look just because someone doesn't like you. They don't deserve you if they want you to change and I know that's hard to follow through on and that sometimes those people who want to change us make us feel really special, but after you change they won't want you because you'll have become a different person.
It's hard to be true to oneself with so many things telling you this is what's beautiful at the moment, but remember that someone is going to love you flaws. And until you find your perfect someone I'll be here to talk.
Love,
Natalie
Monday, June 11, 2012
That Something Special
You want to know something special about family and those friends who are like family? No matter how many times you say that you hate them and that you wish they wouldn't have ever met is that they know how much you really care for them and that whatever you say to them in anger, they know you don't mean it.
This still doesn't give us a right to be mean to someone we love and care about just because we know they won't get hurt, because the words still hurt. They just won't have the same sting as if you had said it to someone that was just someone that you were an acquaintance of. Some may say words don't hurt, but they tend to stick with someone a lot longer than actions do.
So the next time you're angry at someone think before you say something mean. And make sure that you are ready to take the consequences. Maybe you can change those negative words into something positive.
This still doesn't give us a right to be mean to someone we love and care about just because we know they won't get hurt, because the words still hurt. They just won't have the same sting as if you had said it to someone that was just someone that you were an acquaintance of. Some may say words don't hurt, but they tend to stick with someone a lot longer than actions do.
So the next time you're angry at someone think before you say something mean. And make sure that you are ready to take the consequences. Maybe you can change those negative words into something positive.
Friday, June 8, 2012
Thursday, June 7, 2012
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
The Way It Feels...
It's weird to know that there are these people in your life who are going to be leaving very soon and
i won't see for a year or so. It's also kind of scary to realize that all these people are growing up and getting older, which means I'm growing up and getting older. I didn't sign up for that. I was never going to grow up and I may never, but I will get older and so will everyone else I know.
We'll leave our town to go to college and come back to visit only when we deem necessary. And eventually I believe we'll realize how important our family and our friends we grew up with are to us, because no one is going to know us better than them.
Some days it may feel like all these people are disappearing from your life, but they really aren't. They're just giving you room to meet new people and that's okay. It's okay to get new friends and be happy after someone leaves, they're going to do the same thing.
So, be sad for a little while because you're losing friends, but be happy too because you're gaining an all new group of friends and new life experiences. Remember to look back on your life with some regrets, but to know that maybe not talking to that friend after high school was a good thing, or forgetting that old boyfriend was what was best.
Love,
Natalie
i won't see for a year or so. It's also kind of scary to realize that all these people are growing up and getting older, which means I'm growing up and getting older. I didn't sign up for that. I was never going to grow up and I may never, but I will get older and so will everyone else I know.
We'll leave our town to go to college and come back to visit only when we deem necessary. And eventually I believe we'll realize how important our family and our friends we grew up with are to us, because no one is going to know us better than them.
Some days it may feel like all these people are disappearing from your life, but they really aren't. They're just giving you room to meet new people and that's okay. It's okay to get new friends and be happy after someone leaves, they're going to do the same thing.
So, be sad for a little while because you're losing friends, but be happy too because you're gaining an all new group of friends and new life experiences. Remember to look back on your life with some regrets, but to know that maybe not talking to that friend after high school was a good thing, or forgetting that old boyfriend was what was best.
Love,
Natalie
Monday, June 4, 2012
This Summer Will Be Different | Thought Catalog
This Summer Will Be Different | Thought Catalog
It's scary to know that this is true.
It's scary to know that this is true.
Saturday, June 2, 2012
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