We are living in an increasingly substantial, rapidly developing, ever-changing world where society believes we must change to be better, be new to be improved and be perfect to be accepted.
We have forgotten the true brutal burden of beauty that is our human existence and have fallen into the hands of objects to find our value. We are people, not robots.
Over the Christmas holidays, it is very easy to become consumed by materialism and greed for more.
Those new trainers and that new phone and those new clothes…
However, simultaneously, it becomes so easy to forget that value is not a physical thing that can be given or received or even made; it is something you are, something we all are.
Gifts are something we all cherish (who doesn’t love presents?) as a sign of love and appreciation, but they aren’t a way to increase someone’s love for someone else, they are merely an external symbol of that love. And the same goes for yourself.
Think of your ideal ‘glowed-up’ version of yourself after Christmas as being a gift. You’ve started focussing on become more academically motivated, getting into shape, making a skin-care routine and all that jazz. Suppose you achieve this goal and you have become the person you’ve always wanted to be, in time for the new year. What now? Has your value as a person increased? Maybe it feels like that but just remember that, although your surface appearance has changed, contentment in yourself is not always found physically. And contrastingly, if you don’t get that glow up (which is totally ok of course), you are still just as valuable.
Crumpled up money is still money…
Using the Christmas time to embody the ‘new year, new you’ philosophy that we all so desperately desire is incredibly beneficial but, your value doesn’t increase after you’ve suddenly become this beautiful butterfly and neither does it decrease if you stay as a caterpillar.
I asked one of my friends what her opinion on the “new year’s glow up” trend was, and she said: “life’s way too short to worry about what you look like on the outside so I think you should just worry about if you’re happy with what’s in the inside.”
Happiness is the contentment you find in the things you already have, rather than the things you think will provide it.
Smile more. Laugh at yourself. Live a little.
We’re all alive after all, think of all the endless possibilities if we just lived…
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