“That’s how I want to be beautiful. I want love smiling in my eyes from all the bright places I’ve seen and roses blooming from my mouth from all the good and kind words I’ve said. I want a skin that’s been kissed by the sun a thousand times in this lifetime from all the beaches, cities, and islands I’ve melted with the people I love. I want tattoos that mark beautiful moments of my life like the day I first fell in love with her smile, the day my dog passes and I want to remember his happiness, the day I saw myself so confident and fulfilled, and how my body is a canvas filled with art, and I’m not afraid of having these lovely scars forever. I want a waist that’s sexy for all the dancing I’ve done when I am alone in my room because life is too precious not to celebrate it when you can. I want wrinkles when I’m an old man with an old wife because we laughed too much when we were young and in love. I want to be beautiful in such a way that it’s natural for me and not because I want to impress people. I want to be beautiful in such a way that I love who I am for everything I’ve been through.”

Sometimes you can’t become your new self because you’re so emotionally attached to your old self. Let your old self go. Seriously, let that person go. If you want to create a new reality, first you have to create a new personality. An empowering personality. A happy, grateful, and fulfilled personality.