How I started to love myself

There's this old japanese myth that your face is the face of who you loved in your past life and another myth that your soul choose your body, your features your everything. That used to soothe me. Now I love myself so that I don't need anyone else to love me, so that I may be stable on my own accord without dependence on anyone. 

Im Lebanese, Irish and a splash of Spanish. I get told I look exotic a lot. I have some Lebanese features including my nose. I used to hate my nose. I used to hate it so much that my friends and I had pacts that we would break each other's noses so we could get nose jobs, but what if my nose did really look different? Well then it wouldn't look right. My nose could not be my nose if it looked any other way. It fits, it looks right. It would look strange if any of me were to look a different way. So I stopped being displeased with the way my skin sits on my bones and instead I thought about how if any part of me were to look any other way it wouldn't be right. 

Now when I look in the mirror I genuinely smile because of how happy I am to be me, to look like what I look like. Like it even matters anyways. I treat myself with unconditional kindness and love because it's what I deserve. Nothing less. I look in the mirror and I see every way in which I am beautiful and unique and original all in one. I love myself. I will love myself for forever.