Body Acceptance is Beautiful
When you accept your body, it doesn’t matter what you look like
A few days ago, my partner took me to a day spa, and there was an area where you could walk around naked to either swim in heated pools or go in the sauna.
The thing is, most of the people there weren’t young and ‘beautiful.’ A lot of them were older. Yet they were walking around unashamed of themselves.
I went and got a massage, and I didn’t feel self-conscious about the way that I look. I realized, I am getting older now.
People don’t care about your wrinkles, your fat, or the fact that you don’t have a perfect body. They aren’t there to oogle. They are just enjoying their bodies, and the feel of the water and the warmth.
In Europe, people don’t have the same kind of hang ups about sex and nudity that so many have in the US. They just think (I suppose) that your body is your body.
One of the parks that we went to a couple of weeks ago had an area for nude sunbathing. No one was when we went there because it wasn’t warm enough, so I didn’t see it.
But it is in the same park as several kids’ playgrounds.
Body acceptance is different here. People aren’t all about trying to impress or sell sex all the time. Although people for the most part are thinner and more fit because of all the walking. And there are places where sex sells, because there is a whole street of prostitutes. It is just that attitudes are different.
Getting a nude massage, followed by a relaxing time in a sauna with a cup of tea gave me time to think.
Body acceptance is beautiful.
We are all going to age eventually. We won’t have perfect, young skin forever. We don’t have to cram ourselves into high heels and wear perfect make-up and clothes all the time.
We don’t have to be perfect to be beautiful.
We can be aging, we can be flawed. We can accept ourselves as we are, and that is more beautiful than anything else.
❤ Nicole
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