{"id":2556,"date":"2016-08-24T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/?p=2556"},"modified":"2016-08-21T13:21:09","modified_gmt":"2016-08-21T11:21:09","slug":"how-naturism-changed-my-life-repost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/2016\/08\/how-naturism-changed-my-life-repost\/","title":{"rendered":"How naturism changed my life. (repost)"},"content":{"rendered":"

(This piece was written by my Dutch buddy Harmen. I’m proud to know him and to repost this, his first blog post, with permission<\/em>.)<\/p>\n

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After being bullied for a small 14 years during my youth and a slow process of finding and accepting myself, plus a wide interest in a lot of things, I came across naturism 10 years ago. A lot of things naturism is about, like respect people, animals & nature were one of the main reasons. I knew it was practiced mostly in the nude, but since I already accepted myself for who I was at that time, the being nude wasn\u2019t really a problem for me.<\/p>\n

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So I jumped right in and joined a very good friend, which is also naturist and a second mom to me, to naturist resort Flevonatuur in the Netherlands. From the first second I arrived there it felt like home coming and my missing puzzle piece was found.<\/p>\n

My interest in naturism grew and developed a lot these last 10 years, but not only that changed a lot. I think the biggest change in my life was my point of view at life. We are living in an era where time is money and money and status is more important then people. People that need help are left behind, people that don\u2019t need help are overwhelmed with stuff they don\u2019t need but also don\u2019t decline. Don\u2019t get me wrong, I\u2019m a people person, I love people and I\u2019m interested in them. The real them. It\u2019s just the way people act these days what annoys me. The negativity and hate that\u2019s in them lately. Open a news website and read the comments at stories that have the subject immigration for instance. So much hate to people they don\u2019t know, they don\u2019t know their story, their history, their motivation nothing. They just spill their guts on social media without even thinking or reading what they\u2019re saying. I blame modern media for the most part of this by spreading fear and false information. But that\u2019s no excuse for turning of your brain and just typ the most negative things you can think of.<\/p>\n

In the end it\u2019s all about giving and receiving respect. I always ask myself the question, can you look in the mirror before you go to bed and say ( and believe ) that you\u2019re a good person? The problem with this is, that the majority of the people don\u2019t like themselves. They don\u2019t like their job, they don\u2019t like their family and friends and most of all they don\u2019t love themselves. Instead of making a change they just keep going on and on like this for years and keep building up that negative vibe they\u2019re in.<\/p>\n

When you look at naturists, there\u2019s a lot of respect between them. They don\u2019t judge people by what they represent but by who they are. And even then it\u2019s not really judging. Live and let live. They literally know everyone is the same because there\u2019s nothing they can hide. Not even theirselves cuz when you\u2019re at a naturist resort or a nude beach, yourself is all you have to offer. There\u2019s no rich or poor, no success or fails. But there is a Paul or a Jenny, a Rick or a Samantha. There are just persons. Real persons. Living persons. With a suit named skin. And that skin, no matter what color it is, is the same for everyone and everywhere. A female nipple isn\u2019t any different then a male nipple, tho male nipples are accepted in public while female nipples aren\u2019t. I talked with a lot of people about that, male and female, and the majority of the people that are against public female nipples give as reason that \u201d it\u2019s sexual \u201c. Well no it isn\u2019t. They\u2019re put there for a reason, feeding your children. And yes I know it\u2019s an erogenous zone aswell but so are ears. You wanna cover up ears aswell? The point I\u2019m trying to make is that the world isn\u2019t as black and white as you might think.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m posting this and as you probably already noticed you can see my butt ( funny fact: did you know my butt is made out of the same cells and materials as the rest of my body? It\u2019s really true, look it up ). Facebook is a very strange medium. ( Sidenote: When I wrote this it was a Facebook post first ) You can post violence, wars, blood, animal cruelty, filthy words, etc. but what you can\u2019t post is skin that usually is covered up. Pictures of breastfeeding were removed and called \u201d sexual content \u201c. This is the world we live in today. It\u2019s okay to show which awful things are taking our lives, but it\u2019s not okay what kept us alive the first most important period of our life.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not asking you to agree with me, I\u2019m only asking you to love yourself for who you are. I\u2019m not saying I never made a mistake or that I know what\u2019s best for you. I\u2019m human, surely I do make mistakes and I don\u2019t have the wisdom to say how you should live your life. What I do know, is how you could make it easier for yourself on this big planet and more enjoyable. We\u2019re at a moment where the world needs more love and what a great way to achieve that in the first place by loving yourself. Also I\u2019m asking you to think before you speak, especially on social media. I know the anonymity makes it easier to say things you would say offline but that doesn\u2019t justify it.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t judge people before you talked with them. Or even better, don\u2019t judge them at all. Embrace your body, it\u2019s the only one you got. Don\u2019t like your job? Switch jobs. Don\u2019t like your friends? Make new ones. I know it sounds very easy. It\u2019s not. But when you do it, it\u2019ll make your life so much easier. We\u2019re born without judgement. Without hate. Without shame. These are all things that are taught to us. Only question you have to ask yourself is do I really wanna spent my time on earth trying to live other people\u2019s lives or do I wanna live my own life before it\u2019s over. So step outside that box and make a change. For yourself, for your surrounding and for the sake of this world. It\u2019s the world we leave behind for our kids. Don\u2019t let them pay for our stupid mistakes and narrow thinking. There\u2019s more inside you then you think. Embrace it, don\u2019t care what other people will think or say because in the end you\u2019ll see that it doesn\u2019t matter what others think about you. It\u2019s about what you think about yourself.<\/p>\n

Love yourself like I love myself. I know you can do it.<\/p>\n

Thank you \u2764\ufe0f<\/p>\n

If you want you can follow Harmen’s blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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