All I Want | Dawn Golden

I love this. I just fucking love this.

http://www.people.com/people/package/article/0,,20360857_20809287,00.html

I love what Lupita Nyong'o says:

I was happy for all the girls who would see me on [it] and feel a little more seen…Light skin and long, flowing, straight hair…Subconsciously you start to appreciate those things more than what you possess.

It’s so true. Sometimes we do feel unseen. We at least I have. I’ve felt that I’d never be seen as beautiful. And not because that I wasn’t. But that I lived in a world that would never see me that way. Because when every image of beauty looks nothing like you (or you look nothing like them) you just don’t think it’s option. 

You begin to think that no matter how you move through the world or how you connect with people, you can be known as the funny girl, the smart girl, the creative girl, or even the cool girl. But you’ll never be known as the beautiful girl. You’ll never have someone look at you with the sense of awe, love, and esteem that only the beautiful are entitled to. You’ll never be all that someone wants.

I used to feel that way. And Although there are moments when I still do. But seeing something like this makes me think that there’s a girl out there who never will.

And that’s all that I want.