I have been called NAMES ft. Mental Health

Hey Modas,

I hope reading this makes you a feel a little better about everything around you because it made me feel fantastic writing it for you all. Without wasting time, Read on!

Yes, I have been called names. Words truly have power and energy with the ability to heal, help but to hurt and to hinder and harm.

I am understanding from where you are coming from. I am here to tell you where I am talking to you form, for both of us have been there. There, where people around us didn’t seem to like us very much. There, where a lot of people tried bringing us down for reasons then and now, unknown to us.

We have been there, where we thought the ones calling us ugly, dark, too thin, too fat, too white, too black were all right and real. The place where we thought maybe being too dark or too thin is a curse!

We all have been so vulnerable so far. And here’s why I am telling you this today?

As I write this, I have the picture of this little girl walking the aisles of school where some thought she was too thin to be walking and so she heard. She heard all of them talking about her, talking about how she’s even that skinny. That person is ‘ME’. And I know you sitting there and reading this would also remember one such or many of these from your own life. I felt a lot skinny at that point but could you blame me? No.

For those who became so powerful that both of us (you and I) forgot how to truly love ourselves for all the right reasons.We get it now. Don’t we? We finally get it.

We have been looking at ourselves through their eyes for so long that we completely forgot how incredibly brave and beautiful we are.

Where some of you have been called names and some said it out loud. We all have been through it. Haven’t we? I wouldn’t emphasize on the intensity but yes, for a fact I can say it’s been so hard for us, so hard to identify who we are!

And yet again, how this all makes me remember the story of this random teenager, OH WAIT! The teenager whose legs weigh more than the ‘general accepted standards of legs’. Yes, how that teenager miserably texted her mother at home to bring her pants ‘ again the outfit which is supposed to solve half of the problems in this world for girls’ of course the ‘misunderstood fashion outfit’ because everyone made fun of her legs and the short dress she was wearing, and yes the Short Dress! ‘The one’s we are repeatedly asked not to wear because it leads to rape’ .

So yes, we all were there. We were called names. We were told how slutty we were to wear what we choose to wear or how ugly are smiles are, or how are teeth are really not the best ‘dental excitement’.

So today when you read this, Remember You owe yourself an apology. An apology of considering yourself less than magic.

Until, Next Revolution!

Figuramoda loves you and owe you an apology. An apology of not writing this blog earlier!

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