The cure to insecurities

Tatum Hartwig
September 2, 2010
Filed under Opinions, Staff Blogs

Insecurity is something I have suffered with my entire life. I remember even in elementary school thinking that I wasn’t as pretty as the other girls or that I didn’t have as nice of clothes as my classmates. These feelings of inadequacy only grew as the years passed. I became more awkward and isolated. I mean, I did have friends, great friends in fact, but I was never the popular girl. And although I do still have days where I wish that my body was different or that my hair was a different color or that I had more money to buy clothes, I have been lucky enough to have people who make me feel beautiful.

It’s not all the time that you find someone that can make you feel like you are the most special thing in the world, but at least once in a lifetime you will find a person just like that. It’s the person who will say the right thing at the right time and actually mean it. The one who will put a smile on your face that stretches from ear to ear. It will be the person who truly cares for you.

Once you find this person, I have one piece of advice for you: don’t let him or her go. Whether it is a friend or a boyfriend or a girlfriend or whoever it may be, hold onto them. It’s a tough world out there and surrounding yourself with good people who care for you and make you feel beautiful and important are the ones who will help you survive these years in high school and even later on in the future.

So, I guess what I’m trying to say is that there are special people in the world who will think you’re just as great as you really are even if you don’t think so. And these people are the ones you want to associate yourself with. Don’t waste your time on friends or relationships that put you down, make you worry or cause stress, because life is for living and it sure is hard to live life to the fullest when you’ve got negativity weighing you down.