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| Three ladies just like Laura |
Laura's Story
Laura moved through a
few different friend groups in the last two years. She wished she found her
current group of friends much sooner, but there’s three girls in particular
that she'll always grateful for befriending in the last two years. Not because they were especially great
friends, but rather because they made the heart of happiness so much clearer to
her.
Skinny unhappy
Marilyn
"I get tons of compliments" Marilyn comforts
herself as she bites into her rye bread and cucumber sandwich. After breakfast
she runs up the stairs, takes off her pajamas, pinches the little layer of
fat on her hip. "I hate this, it's so freakin ugly". Then she puts on
her school uniform and sneakily applies an extra layer of foundation and
straightens her very curly hair into waves to do the perfect rough-but-perfect
bun on the top of her head.
When she gets to school she watches every eye for stares of
approval. If she doesn't any, she teases other girls who have more hip fat than
she does and secretly throws up her lunch in the bathroom. Actually even when kids shower her with compliments she throws up anyway, she doesn't want to gain weight. Ever.
Nobody will like her then.
Michelle is considered overweight. She's terribly unhappy about her figure. She envies every girl with a skinny frame, girls like Marilyn. "She's got the perfect body", thinks Michelle, "that's why she's so popular. If I could just look like her I'd be happy like she is." Sometimes Michelle diets and shakes off a few kilos, other times she just feels hopelessly stuck in this big body of hers.
Average unhappy Ruby
Ruby rates herself as mousy to average in looks. "I'll won't ever get to date a real hot guy and I HATE my thighs and my dull hair, but at least I don't look like Michelle. That's something to be grateful for, right?” she thinks, walking past Michelle in the schools hallway. But when Marilyn passes, Ruby's eyes jealously follow Marilyn's golden locks and skinny legs. Ruby just sighs, walks on and wonders if the diet Shanique told her about really makes you lose 3kg in two weeks. Also if lemon juice really lightens your hair.
It's all the same
All three girls mull over the way they look, ever worrying,
trying and comparing themselves with other girls. All three are devotedly
unhappy. Michelle just wants to trade in her body for a nice and skinny one. So
she'll be popular and she'll be truly happy. Ruby yearns for skinny legs with a
thigh gap and blonde locks, so she'll get a really cute guy to truly be happy. Marilyn
wished she had boney hips, straight hair, never put on weight so people would
like her so she could truly be happy. Cos being liked is happiness right?
Laura knows the
secret
"It's funny how they think a looking a certain way will make
them happy, yet no matter their shapes, they’re all equally unhappy", Laura realised when she thought of these three girls. "They're exactly the same,
even though they seem and think they're so different. I don't want to be like
any of them, I just wanna be freakin happy!"
On the day of Laura's realisation she decided not to waste
her thoughts on wishing she looked different or better in any way. "All three think the way you look is a road to acceptance and popularity which leads to being
happy. Why not just cut to being happy from the start. These roads just lead to being
unhappy about whatever they don't have, always trying harder to improve
themselves. They think they have to do stuff to be happy. So they'll never be
satisfied, they'll never be happy, cos they'll always want to improve whatever
they have."
Laura knows she doesn't look like the girls in the mags, but she knows she's not suppose to cos she's Laura, not Kate Surrow, or whoever the model is. She just loves her eyes. Nobody else have eyes like her, neither do they have a body like hers. Everybody is so magically different to one another. God did an incredible job in making so many different faces with a nose, a pair of eyes and nostrils. Laura doesn't worry about being popular. She knows her real friends and her real prince charming will like her just as she is and she'll like them as they are, cos God made them too.
"If people don't like me as I am, well then they won't be any good at being my friend or my prince charming, will they?", she thinks while combing her very own coffee brown hair as her very own dust pink lips part to form her very own big bright smile.
And Laura, well she's happy.
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