If you are a human on this Earth and you don’t live under a rock, then I’m sure you know about what happened last Sunday. Yes, the Super Bowl. I love the Super Bowl as much as the next person, maybe not as much for the football aspect as much as the array of dips, but nonetheless, I love the Super Bowl. There’s no better time to hang out with people and to enjoy an American favorite. Even better, you (normally) get an amazing half time show. This year was no different.
Lady Gaga started out amazing and ended even more amazing but there was one part of the show that I knew was going be ridiculed the next day. Her body. Now, I saw nothing wrong with her body. I honestly would love to have her body. But in the back of my mind I knew that someone would call out any part of her body that they saw as a flaw. Here’s the problem, we live in a world that is huge on being accepting of everyone and being nice to everyone but we are also the first ones to call out anything that we see as an imperfection on someone else. Do you see the problem with that? We don’t get to be both. We are either the people who accept others as they are without thinking we get to criticize them or we are the ones who point out everyone’s flaws.
I want to be the one who accepts everyone as they are. I don’t want to be the mean one, or the nitpicker. I want to love and I want to love hard. I don’t want to be the person who ever causes someone else to feel like they aren’t good enough or that they should change something about themselves. I want to make people feel good. I want to build people up instead of tearing them down. We live in a world that is hard enough as is and we don’t need to make it harder for each other. I hope as women we can all one day come together and accept each other as we are. Lady Gaga said it best, “I heard my body is a topic of conversation so I wanted to say, I’m proud of my body and you should be proud of yours too. No matter who you are or what you do. I could give you a million reasons why you don’t need to cater to anyone or anything to succeed. Be you, and be relentlessly you. That’s the stuff of champions.”