I Am Body Positive
Image source: link We live in a society where appearance is everything. When you download a dating app and spend your Saturday nights single, you swipe right according to what the person looks like, not because of what their bio says. You find yourself looking at what's on the outside versus the inside. You don't consider the way they could make you laugh your butt off, but the way they smile because their teeth are slightly crooked, and you have the automatic thought of "why didn't he/she get braces?" And that is truly a flaw that society has. When you see a person at the store adorned with jewelry and tattoos or a person who is considered slightly heavier than you, we are taught to look at these people so differently than ourselves. Throughout my life, I have been considered "chunky." As a little kid, everyone said it was baby fat, and nothing to worry about. When I hit puberty at the age of 12, I was told by the doctor that I was considered