A Bridget Jones Affirmation

After a rather difficult day during the hectic holidays, I decided to have a “comfort” evening. For me, this means crawling into my oldest most comfortable pajamas, fixing a favorite meal, and watching a well-loved movie. My choice this time was Bridget Jones’s Diary as it always makes me laugh and I think Colin Firth is a real hunk.

I have a favorite scene. It’s where Bridget gets stuck eating dinner with a group of friends, all of whom are couples. They give her a hard time about being single. As she gets ready to leave, Mark Darcy (Colin Firth) comes down the stairs and bumbles through a speech about how he likes her even though he shouldn’t. Their conversation is pure Pride and Prejudice, but one line he says always brings tears to my eyes.

He says to Bridget, “I like you just the way you are.”

I thought to myself that this is the best pick up line there ever was. Every man should memorize it. I told this to my boyfriend and laughingly said he needed to say this to me more often. He smiled a mischievous grin and said, “This is a line you need to say to yourself more often.”

He’s a wise man, that boyfriend of mine and so right! I made this one of my New Year’s resolutions. I resolved that every morning when I get up and look in the mirror, I will say “I like ME just the way I am!”

You try it. Say “I like ME just the way I am!” Okay, now say it again with even more feeling. Keep saying it over and over until you feel the power of these eight little words.

It’s okay to not believe these words right away. I know I struggle with it sometimes. I think it’s because it takes time to quiet those old voices, who like Bridget’s coupled friends, like to remind us of what we don’t have. But I really believe if we just keep repeating the phrase, eventually we will convince our minds to believe it.

Therefore, I plan to keep practicing it like I resolved to do. Tomorrow morning, I will get up, look in the mirror at my squashed hair, sleep wrinkled face and say “I like ME just the way I am!” It’s the best pick ME up line there ever was!

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