Imperfections. We all have these. These silly imperfections that makes us think that we're not good enough. Sometimes we just ponder the question to ourselves, 'Am I ugly?'. The bitter fact that we're not perfect makes our confidence shrink. It pushes us to the limits, makes us insecure and pushes us to belittle what God has given to us.

Imperfections gives us the urge to struggle to be perfect. It urges us to diminish even the littlest imperfections. When we aren't good enough, we feel we never would be accepted in a society that we always wanted. We feel that we never would be beautiful because we thought so.

Based on experience, I myself wanted to be perfect. I wanted to be an ideal girl. The kind of girl that everyone would love. Everytime I looked in the mirror, I hated myself more and more. I wanted to have a great skin, great body, and all that- simply because I wanted to be beautiful. Thinking that life was unfair for someone like me who's not-so-flattering-drop-dead-gorgeous-ordinary-girl. But I assured to myself, "God surely doesn't know how to make junk." He made us special in our own way. Finally, I admitted to myself, I can't be perfect. We all can't.

I have happpened to check the Dove Self-esteem fund website. It's really something else. Because instead of promoting beauties that we usually see on the media, they present to us the real beauty that we ourselves are often blind to see. The countless stories I have read in their website was touching. It moved me to see that eventhough, we all have our set of complaints about ourselves, someone will think that we are perfect in their eyes.

We seem to think that the idea of beauty are those we see in magazines, televisions, movies, in the red carpet- that gets all the glitters and gold. But they aren't all that. There's more to life than making ourselves suffer for the imperfections that we are born with. Beauty is self-defined.

As the saying goes, "Some people show their beauty because they want everyone to see it. Some people hide their beauty because they want everyone to see beyond it."

To see their website, click: http://www.campaignforrealbeauty.com/