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The Greatest Love Story Ever Told - By Fisayo Agunbiade

You can be cooking and smiling at yourself. Dressing up and laughing at yourself. Getting to work and swing your hips from side to side because you know you are happy. You feel happy and you know it deep down. As a woman, feelings are like second nature. You call a woman fat or skinny and it hits a nerve immediately. A fuss could be created or a tear could be shed but essentially it all boils down to feelings. 

Women nowadays go after their hearts and guts and that's the way to  finding oneself. The best way to go is to lean on those little voices that direct you to matters of the heart where empathy lives and love is created. Little wonder why women do so successfully in fields of medicine, academia and social sciences. It all boils down to what matters most; the issues of the heart. 

 But consider all that love of finding purpose, finding true love, finding God and not actually finding oneself? Apologies to oneself is already in the works if the realisation that all the things you have been loving for weren't things meant yo determine you. You, are the woman and you need to be found as well. 

Beauty explains this, and even after finding the mysterious treasures of life and you can't find beauty, the work has not been done. You have not been found. "Experiencing beauty is like a smile, an energy, a feeling that takes you over completely." 

So, why don't you love yourself today and let go of all big things down to the little details and experience that beauty that will bring the best out of you. The beauty you will forever be proud of when you no longer have to steal a look at the mirror, but this time around, linger a little while longer because you have seen that beauty and that beauty is magnificent. You are the greatest love story ever told.

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