“Too tall”
Remembering Teen Dira just wanting to be a few inches shorter, because her crush told a friend “She’s cute but she’s too tall.” (He was 6’3, he was just being greedy)
Remembering Teen Dira telling tell her friend on the bus ride home, “Ugh if I could just cut my ankles off...”
Remembering that friend say to Teen Dira “Girl, he is not worth that, and doesn’t deserve you.” (Thanks Debbie)
What did Teen Dira need to hear? In the rise of the instagram girlies, the Hollister baddies, the Pinterest Princesses?
Now, Teen Dira had a flat butt, and NOBODY would let her forget it…
Teen Dira was also 5’9 by the time she was 14, and at a time where majority of the boys were only 5’9 themselves, it seemed like she’d never catch a break.
But little did she know, the moment she owns that height, is the moment she shines brighter than ever before.
Now we will not sit here and act like a flat derrière was flattering, sometimes grown Dira still looks at her booty for plumpness, but the world doesn’t revolve around our one single insecurity, and the people who love us will love us regardless.
If we could go back and gift our 16 year old selves with a message, it would be this:
ANY room that’s demanding you to be anything other than yourself, to mold into something unnatural to your essence, to the way God made you, is not a room that you want to be in. The rooms you want to be in are the rooms that feel like home, and those rooms will love you as you evolve, not CHANGE, but evolve.
(And barre was the booty-busting, ab-crunching workout we were looking for 😉)
written by: dira starr