All Things royal wedding

              Ok, so I am jumping on the band wagon and writing about the royal wedding.  Actually, I am writing about people talking about people who talk about the royal wedding too much.  I will give you a moment to work that out in your mind.

            Personally, I do not really care about the royal wedding (I even refuse to capitalize it).  Yes, I did find it annoying that I could not turn on the television without seeing at least five different programs about William and Kate, or their wedding, or Queen Elizabeth, or Diana, or England itself.  But, you know what I did? I changed the channel. 

            I despise people who have such strong negative feelings about what other people are interested in.  I guess they think they are better because they worry about politics and science.  Maybe their mothers did not teach them if they didn’t have anything nice to say, they should shove it.  People focus on things like the royal wedding because it is a happy love story/awesome fashion show.  (Oh My Goodness, Kate Middleton’s dress was absolutely beautiful!)  I believe just as strongly as others that we should be well versed and educated about politics, science, and all those other important things.  But, you only live once and sometimes it’s better to obsess about something happy and beautiful than to be buried in depression over war and the terrible economy. 

            Therefore, all people who believe that the royal wedding “frenzy should embarrass us all” should watch a Disney Princess (that I will capitalize) movie.  That warm feeling you will feel at the end when the princess gets married, is called happiness.  Its okay to feel that sometimes. 

What are the things you obsess over in secret so that people won't judge you?

 Pictures of that Gorgeous Dress:

Wear Your White Tee

            To be human is to have flaws.  To be adolescent is to feel like everyone is always looking at them.  No one is a stranger to the feeling that it is impossible for anyone to look passed our freckles, or our glasses, or our illness.  The fact is that some people are calling them “connect the dots”, or “four eyes, or “retard”.  Parents and adults in general, tend to think that repeating the words “they are just stupid, you are beautiful the way you are” is enough to change the self image built inside of a person.  But, if you remember correctly, that never helps.  It sounds a lot like “beauty is important” and therefore, you are telling them what they want to hear.

            There seems to be an insurgence of this idea in the media today.  Young adult books are based around the theme “be yourself”.  Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way”, Katy Perry’s “Firework”, P!nk’s “Perfect”, and Selena Gomez’s “Who Says” are just a few of the self love anthems playing on the radio today.  Even television is reverting back to its cheesy Full House approach to teaching the same valuable lesson. This past week’s episode of Glee, however, used a slightly different (though no less cheesy) technique.  Each member of the group was to come to accept their biggest insecurity by facing it.  Or rather, by literally wearing it, in big black letters on their plain white t-shirts.

            We are not all perfect or “beautiful” in the most popular sense of the word today, but we can only be who we are.  Negative judgment only truly hurts when it comes from within.  Teach every kid you know to embrace their quarks and differences.  Show them how to take away the power of those negative words by owning them instead.  Stop enforcing the idea that beauty is important and instill the idea that beauty is what you are.

            My t-shirt says A-Cup.  What does yours say?
Since writing this post, I did this project with my little sister and niece.  Angie, always being big for her age and Alyssa being more innocent than the average child chose these words for themselves.  We decided to put a positive spin on things and put attributes they were proud of on the backs of the t-shirts.