Re-Capturing Beauty

(This is one of those many blog posts that i physically wrote out on paper and am just now transferring to a blog. Just as a preface for everyone in case the dates being referenced confuse you because they were all about a month ago.)

While walking home from class a week or so ago I stopped to read the fliers on one of the many bulletin boards around campus. I don't usually find anything I actually want to participate in but I like to check anyways; in this case, I did find something. Inside of the Women's Services & Resources center there's a group called Recapturing Beauty. 

If anyone is interested, the link to their website is
https://recapturingbeauty.byu.edu/recapturingbeauty/home/.

They had what was called the 10 Day Challenge, an experience where every day you're given some stereotype of beauty in society or aspect of your body you had to challenge or accept, respectively. One of my dearest friends has had a lot of struggles with eating disorders, so I grabbed a flier to show her and we decided to do the challenge together.

The challenge was an awesome experience and I'm extremely grateful that BYU puts on groups and activities like this. My favorite part though was at the end of the 10 days all participants got a white tee shirt that reads

BEA

UTI

                                                   FUL. The hardest part of this challenge was that to fully participate, every day you had to write in a journal about your thoughts and feelings throughout the experience. So from Oct. 12- Oct. 22 I wrote in my journal every single day; that was tough. I haven't kept a steady journal. . . ever. Whenever I write though I'm always reminded of how much I simply love writing. This realization guilt-ed me into writing a blog post about it, and I'm now hoping blogging will inspire the same affectionate feelings that I have for conventional methods of writing. It may be a little bit of a stretch, but when I have something to say I'm finding that I'll actually write it down. For example, this recapturing beauty experience required me to write daily, but when I got used to the fact that I was going to have to write I found that when I sat down with my journal the words almost wrote themselves.

I love writing. It's that straightforward. And this challenge taught me not only how to re-capture the beauty inside of me, but how to re-capture the beauty of doing something I love.