Pre-Opt to Change

As some of you may know, I've been working on a post about body image and how if effects us. After typing it all up, finally, I realized just how long it was.

I could've shortened it, I could've taken away from what people had to say and from their stories, but it didn't seem right. I wanted the post to be raw.

It's something that's so close to me. I'm the one that's always smiling, always laugh, and always just trying to have the best of time. (Even though I like to stay at home most days.) However, I'm the girl to put on pounds of make-up, to spend hours trying to look good and still hating what I look like in the end. I wear high waist-ed clothing to hide my stomach. I use crazy angles for selfies. I hate meeting new people.  I hate talking on the phone. I hate a lot of things, but I wonder if I asked people who know me, who  are around me, or who have spent any amount of time with me knows how much I hate.

I try my best to smile. I try my best to laugh. However, we all have our issues. So, I will be having a series of four blog post, five if you count this one. It will be a deeper look into body image and the struggles that follow. It will tell eight different stories and I just hope someone can take something away from it. We will look at when these stories first started, the journey through the stories and a small where are they now. When I say small, that's a joke. It will be a lot of reading. It will pull at your heart strings and it will hopefully have meaning. I know reading these over and over has given me a lot to think about it and opened my eyes to a lot.
It goes back to one of the post I had a few posts back about how you're not alone. These wonderful people and their stories have made my realize that I'm not alone. I can relate to so much of what was said and I hope you can as well.

Over all, I hope someone reading looks at it, looks at the stories and can find at least one thing they can take away at least one thing.