The Unabridged Version

“Fear less, hope more; Eat less, chew more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Love more, and all good things will be yours”-Swedish Proverb

A lot of people say that they know themselves better than anybody else does. But that's not what this is about. This is about getting to know myself through the lenses of other people. Anybody can see themselves as themselves and love themselves, but those people usually end up alone. So I'm writing this story just as much for me as you. Let's get started:

I am a Junior in college and I recently attended UNR. I have a wonderful family and awesome friends (I've thoroughly weeded out the bad ones, family and friends alike). I plan on continuing my studies of Social Work and Gender Race and Culture at Southern Florida University in Tampa, where I will be moving with my soon-to-be husband Chris. I'm ready to start my life, and help people that truly need it. I write this blog as catharsis and as a means of self-examination. Stick with me, it's bound to get interesting.

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If you are a woman, if you’re a person of colour, if you are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, if you are a person of size, if you are a person of intelligence, if you are a person of integrity, then you are considered a minority in this world.

…And it’s going to be really hard to find messages of self-love and support anywhere. Especially women’s and gay men’s culture. It’s all about how you have to look a certain way or else you’re worthless. You know when you look in the mirror and you think ‘oh, I’m so fat, I’m so old, I’m so ugly’, don’t you know, that’s not your authentic self? But that is billions upon billions of dollars of advertising, magazines, movies, billboards, all geared to make you feel shitty about yourself so that you will take your hard earned money and spend it at the mall on some turn-around creme that doesn’t turn around shit.

When you don’t have self-esteem you will hesitate before you do anything in your life. You will hesitate to go for the job you really wanna go for, you will hesitate to ask for a raise, you will hesitate to call yourself an American, you will hesitate to report a rape, you will hesitate to defend yourself when you are discriminated against because of your race, your sexuality, your size, your gender. You will hesitate to vote, you will hesitate to dream. For us to have self-esteem is truly an act of revolution and our revolution is long overdue.
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I’ve read this a hundred times and reblogged it before, but who cares - let’s start today with this in mind.

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Ah Ms. Cho, I needed that today.
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Hell yeah Margaret!
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