My Daughter

A letter to my daughter

 Dear daughter,

My future daughter, i want you to know that you are beautiful. Okay? Just know that you're beyond beautiful, you don't need any boy telling you that you're beautiful so that you'd have self-confidence.

"You don't deserve a man way out of your league" they say. 

Slap them, honey. Don't let anyone tell you what you deserve and what you don't. You know what you do. Don't let society underestimate you. 

We are conditioned to know that the ones who are tall, and skinny, with the thigh gaps for the whole world to see are the ones who are pretty, and worthy of being seen on television, social media and magazine. "You don't belong in that world" they say. It'll create insecurity and will destroy your self-esteem. When the world focuses so much on body size, you'll start to look at your self differently. Don't stop reading cute little baby, i'm telling you what obstacles you will fall into. But once you feel you're about to fall, take a deep jump, don't fall, and say "mummy told me that if i fall, i get injured."

Don't ever believe you deserve this hate. Don't ever think that the problem is yours. It's the society. The society will make you feel like a prisoner in your own body. In reality it doesn't work that way, see happiness comes within. And to achieve that you need to love the skin you're in. 

Society is obsessed with body size, according to magazines i have the perfect body, when in reality i am far from okay. I am medically underweight. Just because i can fit in size zero, doesn't mean my life is great. Society believes that if you're skinny your life would magically fall into place, and everything will be happy and okay. WAKE UP! life doesn't work that way. What defines you is your healthy thoughts, your opinion. Not your weight! 

Let me tell you the truth: learn that life will kick you hard! In the face. And then guess what? It will wait for you to get back up so it can kick you in the stomach, but gettin the wind knocked out of you is the only way to remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.

Dear daughter, please know that i will hold your hand, every step at a time, i'm not your mother okay? Well i am, but i am your friend, boyfriend, best friend, girlfriend, anything you want me to be. I am here, with you.