There was a time when you were five years old,
and you woke up full of awesome.
You knew you were awesome.
You loved yourself.
You thought you were beautiful,
even with missing teeth and messy hair and mismatched socks inside your grubby sneakers.
You loved your body, and the things it could do.
You thought you were strong.
You knew you were smart.
Do you still have it?
The awesome.
Did someone take it from you?
Did you let them?
Did you hand it over, because someone told you weren’t beautiful enough, thin enough, smart enough, good enough?
Why the hell would you listen to them?
Did you consider they might be full of shit?
Wouldn’t that be nuts, to tell my little girl below that in another five or ten years she might hate herself because she doesn’t look like a starving and Photoshopped fashion model?
Or even more bizarre, that she should be sexy over smart, beautiful over bold?
Are you freaking kidding me?
Look at her. She is full of awesome.
You were, once. Maybe you still are. Maybe you are in the process of getting it back.
All I know is that if you aren’t waking up feeling like this about yourself, you are really missing out.
Amelia says Good Morning.
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Update: As I type this, on Sept 15, this post has 412,00 views. I hope that means 412,000 people choosing to live their awesome.
With all the fanfare, since Pigtail Pals is a tshirt company for kids…..we made up some tshirts full of awesome. I hope you like them.
You can buy them HERE. 3 designs, 10 colors, sizes infant – adult.
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I had forgotten all about my awesome and how full of awesome I was when I was that very same little girl with missing teeth and mis-matched socks. She is still inside of me. It’s time to wake her up. Thank you for the inspiration.
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If you ever decided to have this printed large-scale to be framed, I’d gladly purchase multiple copies. I have a lot of friends who’ve lost their awesome and could use this reminder. I’d like it to be the first thing we all saw when we first opened our eyes in the morning.
Thank you so much for sharing this with us.
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Very cool.
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I think I’ve just found my 2012 New Year’s Resolution – find my awesome! Thank you
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Can we get that on posters in every junior/high school in the country? You rock. Thank you for being AWESOME!
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You have no idea how often I have used this phrase ever since my 4 year old’s Godmother turned me onto it and your blog. I use it for myself and to defend my girls when they are criticized by friends, MY firends and yes, even family members. I will not sit around and allow my daughters to be made to feel inferior because they choose to wear stripes with polka dots or go to the grocery store dressed as a princess or Scooby Doo, when they decide to play with cars or build with blocks or be the girlest of girly girls. I want them to be individuals, not scuplted by society. THANK YOU and keep the awesome coming!!
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melissa Reply:
January 3rd, 2012 at 10:49 pm
Thank you, Lisa!
Your girls sound amazing. Stripes with polka dots (in clashing colors of course) is a must at our house! High five those girls for me, and know in your heart that they are full of awesome because your limitless love allows them to be.
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Hello Melissa
I feel children are a mirror of there parents,so you must be FULL of Awesome! Thx for sharing, i stumbled upon your blog via Pinterest!
Cadischa from Amsterdam, Holland
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I wasn’t that way at 5.
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Thank you so much I remember that feeling and somewhere inside it was hidden but thanks to you I found it and and hope I never lose it again !
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Love this!!!! very appropriate for “us gals” of all ages!! I will remember this tomorrow morning
Thanks.
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