How do you feel when you look in the mirror?

It's incredible how we belittle ourselves. This video made me think about it, about how sometimes we are better than how we think we are.
Beauty is not only about the physical, beauty is all we are made of: our family, our work, our actions and most of the time we forget it and we feel like an empty and ugly person.
This project with the mirror is so creative and I guess that also powerful, because after that experience I would never say again I'm ugly. It is a great strategy to remember everything that composes you and everything you've been through to fell pretty again.

Like a girl.

Confidence, people is trying to destroy our self-confidence. Why? That’s a mystery; maybe they do it on purpose or maybe it is an automatic action. But the truth is that the only one who can decide if you believe in what they say, or if you follow your own rules.

I have always been told that I do everything like a girl, and in fact, at least talking about sports, I act like a girl, I play like a girl, I run like a girl, I hit the ball like a girl, maybe this stereotype was invented because of a girl like me, a girl who isn´t good at sports. But If somebody does something in the wrong way, it doesn´t mean everybody is going to do the same, you can’t generalize.

Every single person is different and has different skills, and they must be accepted as they are. If you accept yourself, you won´t feel bad with comments of doing things like a girl, or a baby, or anything that people tell you to make you feel mad about yourself. In fact you will be proud of being who you are, just the way you are.

I think that’s the objective of this video, empowering girls, and also every single person who is unappreciated because is weak in different aspects. The only one, who can build and also destroy those walls, is you and only you.

In my own skin I can say that I´m proud of being a girl, and doing it the best I can, doing it LIKE A GIRL.

Informal letter

Dear Sally,

Thanks very much for your letter. Your story about the cat and the hat is so hilarious. I just couldn’t stop laughing when I read it; something similar happened to me the last month, but with my dog! Can you imagine the weirdness of the situation?

Have I talked to you about my dog? These days is my favorite topic, I’ve got my dog, Honey, 7 years ago, is a female beagle. Now that I remember, you already knew her the day you came to visit us like 3years ago. You would never imagine how calmed and relaxed she is, that rebel days of destroying everything are in the past.

Anyway, you asked me about college. No, I haven’t made a decision about my career or the college where I’m going to study. Is getting so hard to me to make a choice, I mean I have options, but I need to be happy with it, and at the moment I’m not totally convinced about one career. At this moment I’m just stressed and worried, and also, I’m wishing I was you, you have always known your way. Since we were two primary girls, you have always wanted to be a lawyer and I’m sure you are going to success at that.

I’d better stop here, I will worry you with all the mess in my head, and also  I have a lot of homework!

It’s always a pleasure receiving your letters. Write again soon.

XOXO,

Majo

Postcard

Biography.

Seventeen years ago, on december 29, the daughter of Carmelina and Rigoberto came to this world in a cold winter night in a hospital in Puebla. They named her María José.
The little girl was the third of their siblings, the oldest name is Hector, he was eight years older than her. and then was Carmelina, the sister and best friend of the baby, she was six years older.
When she was three years old, their parents got divorced so she´s been living with her mother and siblings since that day. This doesn´t mean she didn´t get in touch with her father, she used to see him almost every weekend.
Then the nightmare begin. Majo started going to school. The same kindergarten her sister assisted to. she had a great time there and made some friends that she still frecuents. But this awesome school didn't have elementary school, so Majo had to start over again at this new and biggest school, the Loyola.
she's been studying there all this time, and she is going to finish high school there.
Since she was a little girl she found her passion, painting. With the support of her parents she started studying this art. But this wasn't her only passion, the summer she was sixteen she went to an art school, to continue painting. The program of that school included music, dance, theater and painting. Majo discovered that she really enjoyed expressing things with her body, voice, and soul, so now she´s studying theater.
The next december she is getting the legal age, finally the baby of the family will be eighteen. This girl can't complain, she has been having a good life, with a lot of people who loves her.