The mirror and our bodies

“Mirror, mirror, tell me, who is the most beautiful woman in the world?”
The mirror answers: “ O Queen, do not worry, you are the most beautiful of all the women on earth!”
Many of us have read or even watched the story “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”.
Do you remember this dialogue? It was between the wicked queen and the mirror, if you remember?!!
And you know the rest of the story: the little girl Snow White becomes the most beautiful in the world because her pure white heart shines from within,

(We and the mirror)
My friends,
Me and you: what is our relationship with the mirror?
And what is each of our relationships with our own body?
We may see a very beautiful girl with a well-proportioned body, but if we see her up close and get to know her, we find that she has no self-confidence, is not happy with her body, and wishes she looked like this or that actress, model or celebrity.
Well, why does she wish she looked like her?
(The image of beauty)
Honestly, I don't blame anyone. Everything around us makes us feel unsure of ourselves.
Adverts, television, influencers on social media…
They all focus on a single image of us as girls and young men.
The thin girl who cares about nothing but her looks, her hair, her face and her beauty.
And the young man who spends most of his time at the gym building his muscles and sculpting his body.
But my question is: what lies behind this appearance, this thinness and these bulging muscles?
Nobody answers us that!

(I am special)
Do you know what excessive attention to our bodies hides?
Many things. And let me be more frank with you: things that are not positive.
Glory be to God, every person is special in their looks, their face, their personality and their thoughts.
And I personally, Nada Al-Ahdal, am different from others, and each one of you is different from me.
My experience of life, despite my young age, has been rich, thank God, with working for a cause and meeting special people.
And this experience taught me to see beauty or ugliness from the inside, not the outside.
That is also how I want people to look at me. I don't want them to say whether I am beautiful or not, fat or thin. I want them to treat me as a whole human being, body and soul.
(Self-acceptance)
My friends,
Nobody will treat me as I truly am and look at me from the inside, not just the outside, unless I achieve something very important in my life:
I must accept my body and my looks.
And make peace with my body first of all.
And stop the fear and panic over a few kilos more or less, or over a nose that may not look like the nose of this or that actress.

This does not mean that I neglect my body or caring for it.
Nor does it mean that I neglect my health.
No, of course not. On the contrary, it means that I love myself as I am.
(Now look in the mirror)
Go back to the mirror now, look at it carefully and love yourselves.
Our lovely soul is what matters most.
It is our true body.
It is us.
And it is the only thing that should set us apart, in the eyes of God Almighty and of the people around us.