A letter for you

To you, my sister from afar, my accomplice,

I want you to take a moment to really hear this: you are human, with all that that means: your strengths, your weaknesses, your unique, imperfect, and true beauty. We are not frozen models, nor perfect images taken from a screen. Social media doesn't show real life, only selected, filtered, retouched pieces. I also want you to know something essential: you are beautiful, very beautiful. Not despite what you think of yourself, but with all that you are, with your choices, your wrinkles, your curves, your skin, your color, with or without makeup.

The goal in this world isn't to attract attention or fit a fixed idea of ​​beauty. No, what matters is to love yourself, respect yourself, and take care of yourself, as well as others. Not to please people or fit into an impossible mold, but to feel good about yourself and your body, which tells your story.

Society would have us believe that we are never enough, that we must change, hide, and conform to rules that do not suit us. That a woman must suffer in heels to be feminine, that she must hide behind layers of makeup, that she must fit into tiny sizes to be "acceptable"... The majority of us do not look like these "images" and that is perfectly normal. It is this diversity, this very imperfection, that makes humanity beautiful.

You don't need to conform to rules often invented by men in order for you to fully exist. Your worth doesn't depend on a number, a reflection in a mirror, or the way others see you. You are worthy, beautiful, strong, simply because you are you. Never be self-conscious!

So, be free. Be the woman who loves herself with her flaws, her emotions, her scars. The one who moves forward, imperfect, but whole. And remember that you are never alone on this path. Thousands of women fight every day to change mentalities, I am one of them and probably you too 🥹

With all my tenderness,

Samah of Velmorah

(written on 06/05/25)