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Self-Painted Renaissance | Karen Kassabgy | TEDxYouth@SAIS


how you love yourself is how you teach
others to love you now after this code
you’re all probably expecting a cheesy
cliche speech about loving yourself
unfortunately yes
this is a speech about loving yourself
but it’s not the cheesy cliches feature
all expecting I want you all to take a
minute and think about a time you ever
felt so hopeless and unappreciated two
years ago I started practicing the art
of being myself
which is basically me starting to love
myself and accepting myself for who I am
and not how others want to view me after
those two years it was almost like I’m
painting a new painting it was like a
new era for me a new renaissance I
painted myself how I wanted to be viewed
and not how others view me I felt
comfortable in my own skin let’s start
off by saying what does being
comfortable in your own skin mean being
comfortable in your own skin is to feel
relaxed and confident while presenting
your your manners two years ago I was
the insecure girl that was shy about her
looks and personality and I always tried
to fix my looks more than my personality
because what we don’t realize nowadays
is that we are completely judged based
on our looks people base their
perceptions based on your looks but no
one ever really focused on the beauty
that is within us which I find is a
hundred times more important believe it
or not that’s where the law of
attraction came soon my mom was a firm
believer of the law of attraction which
is basically a belief that by attracting
a positive or a negative thought it
comes into your life so you have to
train your mind to attract a positive or
a negative thought and it basically self
reflects into your life after those two
years I felt like a complete different
person I was recognized between my peers
and my teachers I was no longer this
insecure shy girl that always used to
sit alone after I was completely
recognized some people sounded sad that
I had to feel good on the inside before
feeling good on the outside but I
believe that a social reform starts with
an individual and I did I started with
myself before starting with others I
made sure I feel good about myself
instead of making other people make me
feel good and that’s how I started
loving myself and accepting myself and a
friendly reminder if we neither poo
could eat his favorite food and wear a
crop top then so can you
now after I started practicing the art
of myself one of my message after
feeling so disgusted in my own skin I
went and I stood in front of the mirror
and I started complimenting myself I was
feeding my own ego which at first I
found extremely arrogant and I was
completely shy but sooner or later I
started seeing results and as my mom
once told me diamonds are built under
question so after those two years after
feeling like a complete different person
I saw everything through a bigger eye
which is basically the normal pep talk
that we are always told which is
basically just go be yourself is
probably one of the worst pep talks I’ve
ever had they make it seem like it’s so
easy just to be yourself they don’t know
that I’m not trying to be someone else
I’m just simply trying to accept myself
I’m trying to love myself instead of
allowing else
they don’t realize that the normal pep
talk of just be yourself can actually be
very negative because it tends to stress
out the person they tend to feel that
they’re supposed to expect a result
overnight little do they know that the
result does not come in a minute or in a
second and that’s how I started feeling
at phrase when whenever I used to go and
talk to anyone about my problems how
insecure I felt and etc they would
simply just tell me just go be yourself
as if it’s the easiest thing ever just
be yourself what’s wrong with it once
you start accepting yourself that’s when
you start being yourself and that’s what
many of us haven’t realized yet we’re
also busy focusing on looks we all see
the sphere your typical stuff no one
ever really wants to focus on the beauty
that isn’t within us everyone is so
caught up with the models and the
bloggers and everyone and no one ever
really put in effort just to get to know
someone fully two years ago
I wouldn’t have been able to stand here
right now and talk to each and every one
of you and look you in the eye but
that’s where the oil of practicing
myself came through thank you [Applause]
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