Everyone is beautiful

This is just a quick post as this week I've been in so many rehearsals for a show I'm in, Grease, which our first performance is tonight and finishing on Saturday night.

In the dressing room last night, I was talking to a few of my friends about body image and how we all view ourselves when we look in the mirror, coming to the conclusion that everybody will see ourself differently to what you and other people see. 

We started listing things we hate about ourselves and the things we're most self conscious about, lowering our self esteem. This is when one girl said "but the things we hate about ourselves, is probably the thing someone else loves the most about." To which, she was stop on. 

So this is when the little "feel good show" begun. Going around in a circle, we named one or two physical features about the other people in an attempted to get us to love our own bodies and to be comfortable in the skin we have to live in. 

The things we listed went from eyes to hair, legs to curves, chin to shoulders. 

This is such a good way to boost your self esteem and make others and yourself feel good about ourselves and comfortable in our own bodies. 

So if you're having one of those days were you just can't get your hair to fall right and you feel ugly (nobody is ever ugly, only beautiful), or you notice a friend not looking so comfortable in the clothes they've chose, try this little "feel good show" to make everyone feel beautiful. Just to make it clear, everyone is beautiful, even if you don't feel it you are. 

What if...

Everyone has had those 'what if' moments. Either a 'what if I done this?' or 'what if this happened differently'. Today I was sitting in school with my friend during a free period doing some history work when we started saying 'what if...' all to do with the past. 

Have you ever wondered things like 'what if Margaret Thatcher hadn't closed down the mines?' or 'what if Japan hadn't bombed Pearl Harbour in the Second World War?' It really blows you're mind when you think of all the possibilities that could have happened if events had happened differently or not happened at all. 

At night when I lie awake with my thoughts (as you do when you want to sleep), all the 'what ifs' go through my head on a personal leave and I start to question events in my life that could have been different from the like of 'what's if I hadn't of been to five different primary schools, would I still be going to university to study history? Would I have started playing flute?' to 'what if my old group of friends didn't go to Bolivia when me and two or three others went on a Battle Fields trip to Belgium and France, would we all have still stopped talking? Would we have become closer?' 

My head literally hurts after think of all the possible outcomes. The world we live in today could be such a different place to live in. It could be for the better, or it could before the worse. 

I guess we'll never know how the world would be if events had panned out differently in the past, and it's the same for our own personal stories. We all just need to be happy with the life we live, in the world we live in because if you think about the 'what ifs' thoroughly, the world we live in now could be a much worse off place to be.