Hey howdy hey, nice to meet you my name is Maddy, but you might know me as Sue’s daughter, so yES I AM HERE okay first thing is first. Let’s get to know me. I’M THE COOLEST CAT AROUND, AND I HAVE A DEEP INTEREST IN FALL OUT BOY AND PANIC! AT THE DISCO. Well, now that THAT’S out of the way, let me explain you a thing. This is Freaky Friday – YES – Freaky Friday. AKA the day that I get to kidnap my mom’s average blog and make it amazing even if for one day a week J (yeah I used an emoticon, and you may as well get used to it, I use ‘em a lot).

SO TODAY’S TOPIC IS SOMETHING MOST OF US CAN RELATE TO – and if you can’t, you’re probably really good at pretending like you do – so, here goes! DRUM ROLL PLEEEEASEEE!!!!!

((SELF LOVE))

Yeah, I know so many people have talked about it but do I look like I care (if you said yes LoOk aGaIn)? Exactly, I don’t give a flying f – what? Oh, well mom just told me to “watch my language”. Edit: Exactly, I don’t give a single mONKeY BUTT about how many times people have talked about self acceptance and tbqh, how many times have you seen it from a 17 year-old girl’s perspective? EXACTLY. Let’s just jump right on in then, shall we?! (weeee shallll)

Let’s start with a little bit of back story.
I’ve been “big boned” ever since I moved in with my grandma. Grandmas are a great thing, because they know how to make you feel better, but the part that you don’t realize is that most of the therapy provided is through food! I’ve been dealing with not being like the other kids for a REALLY long time, so being different isn’t new for me at all.

With that being said, it’s really hard to like yourself when everyone else is so much different from you, but that’s exactly it! EVERYONE IS SO MUCH DIFFERENT FROM YOU. Do you see where I’m going with this? nO ONE IS PERFECT, OR EXACTLY THE SAME WE’RE ALL BEAUTIFUL SNOWFLAKES.

BUT to contradict everything I just said, how awful is it to be different, if you can’t embrace it? Really awful, if you hadn’t guessed. It’s really hard to make friends and it’s really hard to love life if you can’t like yourself. Believe me, I’ve been there. THE MEDIA and YOUR PEERS and E V E R Y O N E around you are all but calling you ugly.

The important thing to remember here is that there is someone out there going through the same things you are, and that things will get better, and you will meet people who will seem like they were born just to know you. Someone knows exactly how you feel, and if you don’t stick it out, you’ll never meet them, and get to be friends with them, etc.

And friends are a wonderful thing! My friends are literally the best people I know (I mean, they kinda have to be by law to be friends with me). I wouldn’t even know half of them if it weren’t for things that I’ve learned to embrace.

The real moral of today’s story is simply: Love yourself! Don’t take yourself for granted. If things get rough, take yourself out to dinner, give yourself a pamper night, watch a movie or read a book! If you don’t have any friends, get to know yourself! It makes being the real you so much easier.

So whether you think you’re too fat, too skinny, too dumb, too smart, too popular, too lame, a pushy bitch, someone who let’s people walk all over them, whATEVER your personal “flaw” may be, get over it. I know it’s hard, I really do. It takes time. Sometimes I wake up and I hate myself. If you made me record my actions and my appearance for a whole day, I could point out every single thing that’s “wrong with me.”

At the end of the day, just know that someone, somewhere thinks you’re rad, but to see it, first you have to find yourself rad.

In the true words of my Idol, Ru Paul; “If you can’t love yourself, how in the hELL you gonna love somebody else, can I get an amen?” Yes Ru, you CAN get an amen.

And with that, I’ll see u saucy little minxes next week.

XOXO, MaddyLion