Image, love yours

So, as some of you readers might know, and if you didn't you will, I'm a lifeguard at the Logan Aquatic Center. I see all types of people every day: tall ones, short ones, thin ones, round ones, red ones, tan ones, ink'd ones, white ones. You name it, I see it. But how many of them really love themselves for themselves?
Honestly? Probably not very many. And that is such a shame. Society portray's the "perfect" male and the "perfect" female, but who can really match up? After all, they portray these said people in magazines and on TV where they can use photoshop programs and as much make-up as they want/need to in order to make a particular person look a certain way.
Now granted, there are some simply stunning people out there blessed by genetical make, but not all of us are so fortunate to have that fantastic smile or olive skin 24/7. However, we are all originals. We look the way we do for a reason and we should all learn to embrace that.
Guys, you don't need a six pack set of abs, the right clothes, or the know-all of cars for a girl to notice you for, well, you.
Girls, your hair doesn't need to fall exactly the right way, you don't need the brand name clothes or the perfectly flat tummy that we all wish we had, and you sure as hell don't need to be a skeleton!
Because I am a girl with some of these image issues, even though I do love myself just the way I am (let's face it, we'll always have insecurities), this is my "societal portrayal".....

<--this is sexy

this is not-->

Love yourself for you.

Enough said.