How do you see yourself?...

Sorry everyone for being MIA for the past week.  I have been passing a kidney stone and in a bit of pain so I have been in bed when I wasn't working.  All good now.  I am back.

So the subject today is "How do you see yourself?".
I keep seeing my friends and other people photoshopping pictures of themselves, their husbands and even their kids including babies.  Why would you need to photoshop children?  Even babies?  What kind of message are you sending to your children?  You're not okay they way you are?  I just keep asking myself "why"?  I realize people have very different levels of self confidence and I understand that but why do we have to keep trying to show people that we are "perfect"?  No one is perfect.  I wish people would stop trying.  It will just eat you up.  I wonder sometimes if these people photoshopping their faces are ever called out on it?  Does anyone say anything because some of these ladies in real life do not have flawless skin, big, bright eyes and completely white whites, spotless white, white teeth, no wrinkles or frown lines, no grey hair, no jowls......  that's not what they look like in real life.  These are people between 35-55.  Be proud of who you are.  You earned those wrinkles.

I posted a picture of me in the hospital the other day.  I was bored to tears and posted after 7 hours the pic of me that said it all.  My makeup had been smudged and wiped off, I had been crying because I was in pain, I was tired, exhausted and I looked like a wreck.  That was how I looked.  I was proud of that look for that time being because I was just happy I wasn't in pain anymore and all was good.

What I am trying to say is  be proud of who you are, and not ashamed of how someone else sees you.
If that means you let your freak flag fly, you let that freak flag fly.  Be unique, be yourself, you don't need to be perfect, you don't need to be like everyone else.  Enjoy and be proud just being you!