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Even though I agree that external validation shouldn't be relied on, and your own opinion of yourself is the most important, that's still really hard to do when you don't like how you look.
A different comic that connected to me a little more was this one:
Where just because I don't like the way I look, doesn't mean I'm ugly. Someone else may like just as I am, so the important thing for me is to be healthy and happy with myself, even if I don't like how I look
... I'm realizing I'm mostly just rewording what you said, but I wanted to share the comic in case it helps someone else see another perspective :D
Never said it was easy, just that it was important!
One of the best ways I found to discover beauty was practicing art. The process of discovering beauty in anything and anyone makes it a lot less challenging to then find beauty in yourself.
When you can look at a mark on your body and go "I love how this breaks up the negative space and adds an interesting dynamic rhythm to my features" you are on the path.
The human body is full of beautiful curves, contours, patterns, shapes.
And so are apples.
If I can find beauty in a picture of an apple sitting on a table, it sure isnt more challenging to see the same of my own reflection haha.
That is a great way to look at it!
It's always hard to get through the mental block of comparing oneself to others (or your own art to another's), but I really really like how you said the process of discovering the beauty in anything. I need to internalize that and push away the perfectionism that says I could (should) do better. That doesn't matter, anything can be beautiful, and there's no good reason to discredit something just because you're still in the process of learning (or self improving)
Thank you, I'll definitely be stealing this way of explaining what I've been trying to put into words