Uncool People Unite

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This is AMAZING! Love reading everyone's input for this movement created by Nicole Alvarez and Tamar Levine. It serves to remind us to never compare someone's social media highlight reel to our "behind the scenes." Cause as amazing as everyone else's lives may appear to be, just like me and you, they also struggle with their own insecurities or quirks that are considered "uncool" which are usually well hidden. 

After spending some time reading people's posts, it made me realise how much we have in common on what we think are our imperfections. Yet, we all struggle with the same kind of anxiety that stops us from being open about it. We are often made to compete with one another and sugarcoat our everyday struggle, mostly in fear of judgement. I think the world will be a much better place and will bring people closer together if we were allowed to open up. Don't you think? 

Here is my contribution to the campaign that I've posted on Instagram:

 

It's taken me some courage to post this, cause apparently, social media is no place to discuss our insecurities/problems/struggles and when we do, we get labelled as "attention seekers", negative or ungrateful people. By not posting this defeats the whole purpose of this WeAreAllUncool movement that I'm 100% behind, and being open about things that make us vulnerable without fear of judgement unites us and may save people's lives. 

I may lose some "cool points" after this, but here we go. Here are 3 things that make me uncool; 

1. I have troubles with letting people into my life. I've built a strong wall around me. I get anxious when people get closer and shut people out almost immediately cause I feel I'm never worthy enough for some reason. 
2. I am my own worst enemy so I'm very hard on myself and have issues with forgiving myself for past mistakes. I constantly replay past scenarios in my head wishing that I was smarter and made better decisions. Unfortunately, I seem to allow my past mistakes define me. 
3. To this day, I'm very self-conscious about my physical image because I'm a part of a superficial society that puts a lot of value on someone's appearance. I'm not genetically blessed, I suffer from acne, I have the most crooked teeth (braces are sort of helping but I still have a LONG way to go), and I have such itty bitty titties which society constantly disapproves. No one has ever caught me in a bathing suit/bikini on its own at the pools/beach mainly for this reason. I enjoy being at the beach but I'm still not game enough. 

So there you have it. I lack self-confidence and I have anxiety issues, but I'm working on them (slowly). #wearealluncool

Lots o' Love, Linda