7 Rules of Life and other inspiration

Recently I have been seeing inspirational posts on Instagram and online. I wanted to share some of my favorites with you <3  Abs

I was up north this past week being a counselor at a camp. One of the days I spent the afternoon on the shore of Lake Huron taking pictures for a photography session. Here are some of the pictures that I took on that adventure. Enjoy!

Loving Yourself

I think that every person goes through a period in their life where they don't feel confident. Even someone who seems confident on the outside, is actually probably not as confident as you may think. They are just really good at hiding it. Think about the most confident person that you know. That person too has had a day a week or even years where they were not feeling confident. The point is that just like everyone has the possibility to feel unconfident, they also hold the power to feel confident.

Believe me please when I say I understand what it's like to feel unconfident. I'm a high schooler, I'm a female, the odds are not in my favor. Every day I see adds selling products to fix the fact that my skin is "flawed"with freckles, to tame and control my crazy frizzy wavy hair. Plus these adds also help reinforce seeing women as objects. Like I was saying, how is it possible to feel confident in the midst of all of this?

 This is a daily struggle, it's something that I have been working on this year especially. I have been going through a period in my life where I'm trying to become more comfortable with the person I am becoming. I'm starting to figure out what I want to do with my life and who I want to be. And making an effort to think positively about myself has been crutial to this soul searching. 

I want every person boy, girl, woman, man, young, old, to know how important and special they are to the world. When I see people posting negative things about them selves on social media or saying negative things out loud, it makes me sad. I want to give these people a big hug, and tell them that they are the only person who has their mind, their hopes and dreams, and their body. That they are like a snowflake, beautiful and in a unique crystal pattern, one of a kind. I was searching the internet one day when a quote caught my eye. I think it sums up  my feelings exactly. 

"Too many people OVERVALUE what they are not and UNDERVALUE what they are." -Malcom Forbes 

I hope you can take this seriously. If your at a point in your life where you feel like you can't go on, I want you to know that it gets better. It gets easier when you can start day by day loving a little bit more of yourself. 

Hello Internet

Hi internet this is my first ever post! I just finished my school year and I'm starting to get really excited for the summer. I was pretty delighted to get out my summer clothes from my closet and start wearing my shorts and t shirts again. I realized that I have way too many t shirts. I decided to repurpose one of them into a cool fringe crop top from a tee that I got for my birthday. Here is the original tee and the result styled with red shorts (Forever 21), a chambray shirt (Target), my blue converse and a wristlet (Vera Bradley).

 

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