There’s no clock we’re supposed to be on, no schedule our lives have to match.
Everything happens at exactly the right time for us, and everyone’s version of “perfect timing” is different.
You are already so beautiful—just the way you are.
Almost every woman we spoke to talked about how stressed out they’d been in her 20s about fitting society’s beauty ideals.
Most of us spent a lot of time that decade worrying about whether we were thin enough, curvy enough, “pretty” enough, whether we fit the mold—and what that would mean for how our lives unfolded.
Without exception, all the women we interviewed told us that not only did they recognize their own unique beauty a bit later in life—but they looked back on their younger, insecure, worried selves and saw just how beautiful they always were.
Society’s myths about how we’re “supposed to look” to be beautiful are just that—myths. The older we get, the more time we have to practice shaking off those myths and recognizing what’s really true for us—including the fact that we are already beautiful.
What piece of advice would you give your 24-year-old self? Let us know in the comments below!