My name is Shruti and I am 18 years old. When I was around 10 or 11 years old, I started hating myself. I started hating my eyes, smile, height and what not. I used to compare myself with other girls of my age which was indeed my biggest mistake. I am a skinny girl who is just 5 feet tall. Our dear society and its so-called beauty standards made me change myself. Around 6 years I had just hated myself all along. I hated the way I looked, I envied other girls over height, body, smile and so much more. These 6 years were very difficult to live through.
HOW YOU LOVE YOURSELF IS HOW YOU TEACH OTHERS TO LOVE YOU ! – RUPI KAUR
In the latter half of 2019, I came across a boy’s video on tiktok while I was scrolling through it. It was a very simple video of a boy in an interview introducing himself as a good boy (if you are an army, you know this right?). Seems foolish, right? But for me this is the video where everything started. This boy was none other than the worlds biggest boyband BTS member V aka KimTaehyung. After this video I got a lot of recommendations and gradually I started learning about them who they were, what did they do etc. I listened to their music, watched their content and gradually fell in love with them.
EMBRACE THE GLORIOUS MESS THAT YOU ARE.--- ELIAZABETH GILBERT
Let me first give an introduction to who they are. They are BTS world’s biggest boyband from South Korea. They consist of 7 members named RM, JIN, SUGA, J-HOPE, JIMIN, V, JUNGKOOK. They are incredible human beings. Many people think that they are liked so much because of their looks but that’s not the very first thing that’s noticed by people. They do have really good looks but what made me their fan was their music, because their music is not just about love stories, relationships or breakups. They speak up about the youth issues through their songs. Not only their music but their personalities are also very attractive. They taught me a lot of things about life, but the most important one was loving myself. They taught me to look over things in a beautiful way. They taught me and millions of others to love ourselves.
After discovering about them and knowing them a little more every day I can say I have started loving myself. The things that I looked over as my flaws are now the ones, I appreciate the most. Now I won’t ever change myself just for the sake of the society. I have started looking over my features, my personality with all of my heart and I understood that though its not easy to love ourselves but once you start looking at yourselves in a pure and beautiful manner you will start loving yourself.
IF YOU WANT TO LOVE OTHERS , YOU SHOULD LOVE YOURSELF FIRST.-- RM OF BTS
This was my story of my journey towards loving myself a little more every day. We are beautiful the way we are and to see our own beauty we just need ourselves to look at us in a beautiful and sincere way. BTS are my idols who helped and are helping me to love myself. Who are your idols who u looks up to or has helped you through any issue in your life? Tell me in the comments below!
