When I look in the mirror each morning the first thing I see are the negatives. I see a girl who has acne, I see negativity, and I see exhaustion and unlikeable features. But despite the fact that these are what I first see, these are never really the things that other people see in me.
These things aren’t the real definitions of me. When many people look in the mirror all they see is their negative features, when we should be looking at the positives and the things that make us who we are as individuals. If we only look at the negatives, that’s all everyone else around us will look at, never the positives or the real you. Though we all have and think negative some times, which is okay to do, we have to remember that the positives are what give us the drive and ambition to do things in life. The drive to go out and achieve our dreams. Life can be rough, but it is up to us as the individual to think positively about each situation and push on.
I know that I think negatively a majority of the time, but I know when that something is something that needs to be fixed. A friend told me to see the glass half full instead of half empty, because if I didn’t, I wouldn’t get what I wanted out of life, especially if all I thought about was the negative aspects of every situation. So now when I look in the mirror I focus on the positives. I see a girl who has friends and a family that love her, a girl that is smart and caring towards others and their opinions, I see a girl looking for her place in the world and knowing that it is okay that she hasn’t found it yet, a girl fixing the negatives and turning them into positives.