UNSEEN TRAVEL AGENCY

Reading Time: 5 minutes “She’s just soooooo pretty.” I heard my friend’s confidence crippling, threatened by a new girl hanging out with a guy she was seeing. It broke my heart. I cringed as I tried to come up with the right words to text. For starters, there are so many brilliant and beautiful people in the world, it’s not just looks that set a guy or gal in stone with a romantic interest. But that’s not what matters. It wasn’t really about the guy. Self-esteem comes from within. So I answered wholeheartedly and honestly: “So are you.” A babe gorgeous inside and out, all I could say was that who cares if the other girl is really pretty. She is a beautiful woman, and so is my friend. We’re all beautiful. Somewhere along the lines of being polite, Photoshop, and our natural need to categorize the world to better understand ourselves, women [and men] stopped taking compliments and created odd beauty standards instead. We’ve all been there. We’ve compared ourselves to our...

Reading Time: 5 minutes #NoRegrets .. it’s like a socially acceptable YOLO right? I don’t like the phrase “No Regrets” because it romanticizes our mistakes and overlooks the fact that we could have made better choices. Mistakes Growing up, my mother framed mistakes in the following way: Everyone is trying to get somewhere. We are all on a different path and we can get there, but the more mistakes we make, the heavier our load is throughout our walk. That is why it’s called “baggage.” It doesn’t mean you can’t get there, it just means you can’t walk as fast. Avoid decisions that will slow you down from getting to where you want to be in life. BUT, don’t think that if something negatively impacts your life you can’t still keep walking. You can always move forward. Click To Tweet I am happy about where I am today and the choices I’ve made, but there are some things that I could have done differently. I am...