Positivity!

For those of you who may not know me that well, my name is Anna and I’m 23-year-old college student (kid) who doesn’t really know what I’m doing in any area of my life. But who says you have to know what you’re doing to say positive things about yourself? (No one! Suck it, society).

And here we go: 

1.) Creative—Though I fail at creating decent things way too often, I consider myself to be an extremely creative person. I love coming up with new ideas, talking about ideas of any kind with an open mind, and doing random, seemingly strange things that turn out to be pretty cool about less half the time. I’m also a pretty fabulous writer and dancer, when I believe in myself. 

2.) Intelligent—I am a very bright person. I wouldn’t say my intelligence is always aligned with standardized testing, but I’m great at quickly understanding and critically examining new concepts. 

3.) Beautiful—For a while I shied away from admitting this, because I thought it sounded vain. But now, I recognize that I am considered beautiful in our society/culture and I embrace it, because there’s not a whole I can do about it for starters, and I believe that beauty is more than just physical appearance. My inner beauty is really what I want people to see when they look at me, and I think our inner beauty can shine outward and even become physical beauty in some ways. And I’m learning that, in this way, my physical beauty can be considered a positive thing in my life, or a gift, because it helps reflect the beautiful person I know myself to be on the inside outward to the world.

4.) Perceptive—I’m good at recognizing things that aren’t so obvious to most people. I suppose it comes from being overly sensitive, but I think it’s a positive quality because it helps me understand the world and its strangeness better, grow as a person, and articulate the abstract.

5.) I’m an awesome sister! So says my sister… However, I actually believe this to be true. I’m so happy to have the close relationship with my sister that I do, because we figured it out early, and now we get to go through life enjoying each other and our sisterly bond :). I think what makes me a good sister is the fact that I both demonstrate and tell my sister that I’ll always be there for her. I’m far from perfect, but I’m going to be there to annoy her for the rest of our lives *evil laughter* I also think I helped instill a lot of confidence in my sister when we were little, because I would always tell her how amazing and beautiful she was—and I now see that she believes it (because it’s just so true!) I also see that I have shaped her life in many positive ways, and that makes me unbelievably overjoyed *tearing up a bit here* 

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I challenge whoever reads this to write and post 5 positive things about yourself :).