are you insecure? then listen to this...

who cares if you are short?
if you are obese?
who cares if you are ugly and full of acne?

who cares if your still single?
if your jobless?
lonely?
who cares if s/he dumped or left you?

because the truth is,

no one really cares

for the only person who overrate it,

is YOU.

i bumped into this video and basically, it touched me. hopefully, it will move you too.

if your internet's not that fast? then follow it through this:

everybody has their insecurities about themselves.

insecurities about your personality,

about where you come from,

about your family,

about your friends,

about people's perceptions of you,

about what you do,

about what you look like...

our challenge is to overcome all these insecurities

if they don't really mean anything.

i'm insecure about many things,

some of which include

my body.

i'm a short guy,

five feet, four inches,

but for the past two years

i've been working hard

working out

and i think its paid of

because,

i may be

a short guy,

and i may not be the sexiest guy,

but two years has

given me a body that i am proud of

the thing is,

i may have worked out a lot,

like the narcissistic fool that i am

but it doesn't take away all my insecurites.

i am still scrawny guy, and you really can see it

when you look at my ribcage.

you'll notice that i shaved my armpits in the same way that european guys around my gym do

because here in europe that's the common thing, and feel the peer pressure not to be hairy

i got surgical scars,

one right here; its a discoloration on my right arm.

and i've got other scars.

i've got scars here,

because when i was a teenager

i got acne down there

teenagers,

that can happen.

basically, it looks like i've got the state of hawaii right there and guam right there.

i ate a bag of chips for dinner the other day and i ate half a bag of chips today and because of that...

that type of thing doesn't help me get my abs that i want

i never go to sleep enough

you can see the bags under my eyes.

i don't drink enough water

i got a unibrow,

i have to pluck it

and i still have acne.

so i'm insecure,

and when you're naked

you feel especially vulnerable.

most people they aren't gonna see,

all your imperfections

they aren't going to see your scars

under normal situations

most poeple i can deflect from

what i think are my own imperfections

because i'll cover them up

with my clothes.

i'll cover them up with my jokes.

i'll cover them up with my personality.

i'll cover them up with working too hard.

i'll cover them up by being too nice to them

so that they can't see what's wrong with me

and that's how i overcome my insecurities;

by hiding them.

ultimately, i don;t think

i can't get rid of my scars

and if i really want to find somebody

who can accept all of me --- romantically

or otherwise -

then i'm going to have to find someone who doesn't mind my imperfections.

that

is a challenge, but it requires me

to just let some things go.

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so still insecure?

OF COURSE, you still are.

for changing it is a process and not something that you can do over night.

but what is important, is that you just don't use these as an excuse.

something to ponder about

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A bunch of people get the Swine Flu and everybody wants to wear a mask. A million people have AIDS and no one wants to wear a condom

-Kat N., a wonderful friend