Finding the Extraordinary in You

During my morning blog trolling I found this post and it got me thinking because it rang so true to me. The auther says:

"Most people don't think of themselves as beautiful. We don't think of ourselves at all, really. We just get up, splash water on our faces, dress, pull our hair back, throw our clothes on--whether the uniform of mindless choice is yoga pants or your everyday sari. There's no thought in it; we simply prepare for our day and show up as best we can...blind to our beauty, unconscious of how extraordinary it is to play our everyday roles."


I tend to look at my life and think how ordinary and unexciting it because well it's my routine, I do it day in and day out week after week. I tend to look at myself and see the flaws, the mistakes I've made, the things I need to do better. When people ask me to decribe myself I never know what to say. I'm just me. In fact for one of the essays on my college application they asked me decribe me. I coldn't think of a thing. Luckily we had done a young women's activity prior to that where we each discribed what we liked about each other. I pulled out what my peers had written about me and that became my essay. (Lame, I know)

And maybe this is the way it should be. If we all thought we were as extraordinary as we may be, there wouldn't be room for any growth, we'd be content how we are. Not to mention we'd all have egos the size of Texas.

But today I want to challenge myself, and the 3 people who read this, to look at yourself and your life and find the extraordinary person that is you. Cause really, there's no one out there quite like you.