Hi pillow talk! This is my first time ever positing here and I know it's a different kind of audio but I hope it works okay in this sub reddit? I originally wrote this in a more poetic format but turned it into a more script/rant so it was easier to record as an audio. It felt more personal for me to record it, rather than my words alone.

I hope that you enjoy. It's a little rambly to begin with but I do hope my message comes across okay and that you feel a little bit more loved because of it. 🤍

Short rambly audio here!

The script I wrote for this short little audio:

I'm a 7/10. I have acne scaring, stretch marks, unperfect teeth, extra weight.. I could go on. But I won't. Because I don't fixate on that stuff. In society beauty standards, I'm a 7/10 at best. But I treat myself like a 12/10 because I damn well deserve it. And so do you. I wanted to start this off naming my so called "flaws" to show that I am just as plain and natural as a human as I can possibly be. Im aware of what I look like, but I'm also aware with the way I treat myself. And that's with self love and self respect. 

And for you who is listening, if you do not love yourself, I want to ask you one question. Why not? Does the immediate answer to my question begin a list of flaws or insecurities for you? Or does it bring up the negativity someone else has imposed on you or perhaps who the world tells you to be.

I will ask you again, why do you not love yourself? Why exhaust the one thing we can control? There is so much limiting us in this world already on the outside perspective, why not create positivity within the inside? Because you can control what you think of yourself, you can control how you treat yourself, and you can control who you are to yourself. There is this safe space that is home within our bodies, that is built inside you. A home that manifests love and happiness, as your outside shell takes care of this soft warmth inside. And this is a safe home that you always carry with you. You can control the love within you towards yourself, and feed it back into your heart, and create a positive environment within your eternal being.

Because you deserve to have that love and care always. Your outside shell is just the beautiful body that holds all the goodness that makes you- You. And to me, You are both wonderful inside and out. And every part of you is worth love. 

At the end of the day, that is all we want is to be loved, isn't it? So if we can start from ourselves, we can learn to love others the way our hearts are meant to. After all, we're placed on this world to love people. The only thing factoring between when we enter this earth and leave this earth is the love we create with the time inbetween, and that's what we leave with, is the heart filled with love from what we created. And the only heart you take away with you, is yours. Regardless of how many hearts you melted along the way, your heart is the one you hold with you the entire time.

So love it fully. And love it deeply. And don't stop loving.🤍