Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Embracing the Battle Scars

I'm happy today! Are you? Except for a touch of contact dermatitis on my face that is itching me to madness, I'm still happy. My skin is doing well despite the horrid humidity in St. Louis right now and the only extreme dry issues I'm having are with my scalp and hair.

As mentioned in my previous entry, I experience a brief lapse of jealousy when thinking of having beautiful, flawless skin like so many people I see. We are a nation, country, a world of disease and abnormalities in some fashion because not one of us is perfect. Even when outward appearances lead others to believe we are.

So, as a small step over the past two years I have learned how to embrace my eczema battle scars and love "the skin I'm in" because no one possesses the same "reverse" freckles that I do and I love my "Uniqueness."

Vitiligo, aka "reverse freckles" became a constant in my life when I turned eleven but I no longer deplore his presence. I make him a part of me because he is......

UniquelyME

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