Beauty Rant.

Dear girls: You are beautiful for who you are, not how you look.

"Oh, so you got a guy to look at you by taking your clothes off? Congratulations. You and every other girl on this planet. I'll be impressed when you can capture his attention by being someone worth viewing for more than your body."

Realization: ANY girl can get attention by being naked. Push up your boobs just enough and angle that camera just right and you can have every guy lusting after you and 10,000 facebook likes.

Realization: Beauty isn't that important. It's likely that you've searched "hot girls" on google before. See all those girls? They have souls. They aren't just bodies. They have dreams, likes, dislikes, quirks. They want to be known, and maybe they think they can only get attention by taking off their clothes because that's what they've been taught. So that's what they do.

Realization: I don't care if I don't get that attention from guys. Do you know why? Because I am more than a body and I know it. If someone is going to like me, they are going to like me because I have more to offer than my body. Because EVERY girl has a body. Every girl can be beautiful if she plays it and dresses just right. I refuse to be condensed to nothing more than a body.

Realization: I don't want to be beautiful, "hot" to get attention. I don't want to need every guy look at me and make comments to feel good about myself. I want to be fit to feel good about myself, I want to follow my dreams to feel good about myself, and I want to be beautiful for one man - the man I will marry. Over the top? Maybe. But i'm not going to be like every other girl who takes her clothes off to get attention. And girls, we don't have to. 

Realization: What is physical beauty? If I am beautiful, I want to be beautiful because I love the unlovable. I want to be beautiful because I smile in the midst of pain. I want to be beautiful for more than a body that will likely someday become old, fat, and wrinkled. I want to be beautiful because I am becoming who God has made me to be.

Beauty captures attention, but personality captures the heart.

Beauty begins the moment you let yourself shine through.

Beauty is not in the face; it is in the light of the heart.

*End rant.