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Sometimes ugly things can be really beautiful. Your messy handwriting, unwashed hair or dirty jeans all add up to real life. Perfect is an illusion and illusions are not real. So if you can do one and one then you know that perfect does not exist. We say that a lot but we still insist on it being out there. Your life can be perfect if you do this, wear this and marry this... It's in every magazine on the stand with an absolutely beautiful tan woman with a great waistline on the cover.

The media sells us an image of perfect and we buy into it every time that we pick up their issues. Then a few weeks later, those magazines end up stacked on the floor with coffee stains and water-warped pages. You know when you watch movies and the characters aren't superbly beautiful and don't have their life together and you love them more than you do the latest Nicholas Sparks? That's because the people seem real. Real life isn't perfect. It's coffee stains on your shirt and dried food on your jeans. It's used books and running late for work. Enjoy the things that aren't so nice, because you'd be very annoyed with your perfect life if it existed.

catch you later,
Karleigh

“You’re never too big to lose. You’re never too smart to lose. It happens, and you need to embrace those things.” // Beyonce