Hopeful Hearts Essay

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Hopeful Hearts: Helping Girls Battling Cancer Embrace Their Inner Beauty Imagine yourself as a school-aged girl. Like every other girl in the world, you want to fit in, feel special and beautiful. Now think about going through this stage of life while battling cancer. You would probably be scared, frustrated, and self-conscious. The treatments you have to go through could very well cause you to face many physical changes such as hair loss. Girls who face these changes fear that guys won’t be interested in them. They just want to live a normal life. While battling cancer is difficult for anyone, facing it while you are still trying to discover who you are as a person is devastating. I want to give hope to young cancer patients who are insecure about themselves and the changes they are facing. These girls need to realize that true beauty is found within while also feeling beautiful on the outside. Hopeful Hearts is the perfect opportunity to do this. Hopeful Hearts is an outreach program I would love to begin soon to help young girls battling cancer. It would be all about showing them that they are beautiful based not only on physical appearance but also on what kind of person they are. By visiting hospitals and talking to the girls on a personal level about true beauty, I want to be able to constantly remind them that focusing only on outer appearance will lead only to destruction. Now, it is not reasonable to expect young girls to stop caring about physical appearance altogether. Therefore, I want to make them feel physically beautiful by hosting small pageants at the hospitals I visit specifically for the cancer patients. This would give the girls a chance to do something that they may not usually be comfortable doing. I know that, win or lose, pageants give me a chance to show who I am as a person as well as feel physically beautiful, and I want to give

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