bigger and better things than the mirror

What if part of learning to love ourselves was just learning to not care as much. The minutes in the day spent looking in a mirror trying to achieve a look that will never fully satisfy our own personal standards of "pretty". The 8 different shirts laying on the bedroom floor in the morning because none of them passed the test of being deemed "cute". It's exhausting. Chasing something that doesn't even exist, exhausting. Even when we do slightly reach our "pretty" or pass the "cute" test, what's next? We just set the standards higher for ourselves and we just keep running. Running to a finish line that only grows farther every time you take a step.
  I could sit here and write a thousand paragraphs as to why you should love your body and how you are so beautifully and wonderfully made all which would be a 100% true, but would it really change anything? No amount of comments on an Instagram picture can fill the craving to be pretty. It really all comes down to ourselves... choosing to find our worth in Jesus and not what we see in the mirror. The real enemy of loving our own skin, is our self. My mama always tells me that if someone is being mean or rude to just not make a big deal out of it and carry on with a smile- to just ignore them. By just ignoring that person, you're not giving them the reaction that they want so they will eventually stop. Why do we treat ourselves any differently? Why do we let our own thoughts of self- criticism get under our skin? I've finally come to the realization that there is so much more to see in life than what's in the mirror.  I know we say life is all about the little things, but when little things like frizzy hair and our lack of abs bring us down we need to remember that there are bigger things in life that are far better than our insecurities. Bigger and better things- that's what I say in my head over and over again... it helps, it really does. It's my reminder to stop running the race that never ends. To stop letting little things determine how good this crazy life can be.