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What I love about me... say it here! By Tez3 - 12-08-2009 08:26 AM
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Positive thinking ladies! State boldly and without fear what you love about yourselves!
To be fair I'll start, don't think of this as boasting as I know we are expected to be modest but think of it as an affirmation of all the positive things you are.
I love that I'm independant in my thinking and I don't rely on others to make my mind up and form my opinions. Yep, I'm gobby lol. I love that I have confidence in me, I can walk into any room, into any situation and know that I can cope. I'm as happy talking to complete strangers as to old friends. I love that people come to me to help and I can even if it's only listening. I like people and while thinking the best of them is often discouraged by the cynics I'm rarely disappointed as, if you think the best of people they often want to live up to your expectations.
I love than while I'm not as fit as I could be and I'm not as slim as I was nor as young as I was I'm still happy in my skin. Hey I'm alive and thats always going to be a good thing. Better to be alive on a rainy day than dead on a sunny one.
The idea I have is that we think about and celebrate who we are rather than the 'I hate my thighs' and 'I hate me' things. It's fashionable right now for women to be seen as insecure and many women keep quiet rather than be seen as strong and individual. It's almost brainwashing, magazines, newpapers, television etc all go on about women's lack of self esteem, so much so it turns into a self fulfilling prophecy. Constantly being told women can't do things because of low self esteem makes women think thats always the problem. It may be harsher to say, ladies get up off your backsides and do it because you can if you put your minds to it but it's truer.
I'm probably a product of the British girls public school system, here that's private educaton, think Roedean and Cheltenham Ladies College (my school not that posh though) but we were taught to lead, to be be firm and confident. We were also Girl Guides another organisation that extols the virtues that come with being strong females. We were expected to have careers and when/if we married to be able to bring up families plus do 'good works' in the WI, WRVS etc. It was a no nonsense way of education, probably very English. The men we married we most likely to be military, colonial police officers, missionaries, doctors etc as we were expected to be. It wasn't enough to train to be a teacher one was expected to be a teacher in a jungle somewhere lol! Difficulties were made to be overcome. Many of the female teachers we had in the 1960s were were coming towards the end of their careers having fought to be accepted at universities and coping with the lost of fiances and men friends during the First World War then survived the Second. They were hugely influential on the way we thought and perceived life. It's something I admit I try to pass on to my female martial arts students, all of whom are children.
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Positive thinking ladies! State boldly and without fear what you love about yourselves!
To be fair I'll start, don't think of this as boasting as I know we are expected to be modest but think of it as an affirmation of all the positive things you are.
I love that I'm independant in my thinking and I don't rely on others to make my mind up and form my opinions. Yep, I'm gobby lol. I love that I have confidence in me, I can walk into any room, into any situation and know that I can cope. I'm as happy talking to complete strangers as to old friends. I love that people come to me to help and I can even if it's only listening. I like people and while thinking the best of them is often discouraged by the cynics I'm rarely disappointed as, if you think the best of people they often want to live up to your expectations.
I love than while I'm not as fit as I could be and I'm not as slim as I was nor as young as I was I'm still happy in my skin. Hey I'm alive and thats always going to be a good thing. Better to be alive on a rainy day than dead on a sunny one.
The idea I have is that we think about and celebrate who we are rather than the 'I hate my thighs' and 'I hate me' things. It's fashionable right now for women to be seen as insecure and many women keep quiet rather than be seen as strong and individual. It's almost brainwashing, magazines, newpapers, television etc all go on about women's lack of self esteem, so much so it turns into a self fulfilling prophecy. Constantly being told women can't do things because of low self esteem makes women think thats always the problem. It may be harsher to say, ladies get up off your backsides and do it because you can if you put your minds to it but it's truer.
I'm probably a product of the British girls public school system, here that's private educaton, think Roedean and Cheltenham Ladies College (my school not that posh though) but we were taught to lead, to be be firm and confident. We were also Girl Guides another organisation that extols the virtues that come with being strong females. We were expected to have careers and when/if we married to be able to bring up families plus do 'good works' in the WI, WRVS etc. It was a no nonsense way of education, probably very English. The men we married we most likely to be military, colonial police officers, missionaries, doctors etc as we were expected to be. It wasn't enough to train to be a teacher one was expected to be a teacher in a jungle somewhere lol! Difficulties were made to be overcome. Many of the female teachers we had in the 1960s were were coming towards the end of their careers having fought to be accepted at universities and coping with the lost of fiances and men friends during the First World War then survived the Second. They were hugely influential on the way we thought and perceived life. It's something I admit I try to pass on to my female martial arts students, all of whom are children.
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