Everyone wants to be beautiful.
This is a fact of life. In 2011, we have so much access to media via television, internet and magazines and we spend so much time deciding what looks good and what doesn't, what's in style and what isn't, what's acceptable and what is not. Things that everyone was wearing yesterday are being traded in for something new. It's almost impossible to keep up.
The media doesnt just shape how we dress and how we style our hair. It has a lot to do with what we believe is beautiful, both in ourselves and in other people. Roscoe Dash had black men wearing mohawks, Cassie had young girls shaving one side of their heads, Kim Kardashian had 100 pound white girls doing squats and trying to make their asses bigger. As human beings, we all just have an overwhelming desire to be accepted and even envied by other human beings. Human beings who are flawed just like we are.
We try so hard to gain validation from other people, a lot of us end up being unhappy with ourselves. We don't know who we are or what we like because we are trying to perpetuate the image of ourselves that we want others to see.
I'm guilty of this every single day. I make so many decisions based on what other people think. I'm trying this new thing where I do what makes me happy. Whether or not I feel beautiful shouldn't have anything to do with who tells me I'm beautiful or who pays attention to me. It's a struggle, because I'm still trying to build my self confidence. I like to come off as a person who has it all together, but the truth is, I'm very insecure. Ive come a long way from when I was a teenager. I'm a young lady coming into my own, but accepting that we all have things that we are insecure about is the first step in embracing what makes us beautiful.
-Niss
#nowplaying Teedra Moses - The One
Girl this hits home so much. I feel the same way. I call myself being myself, but alot of the time I realize that what I do, I do because of other people. But I'm working on it! lol
ReplyDeleteI agree. I had a comment but the site gave me difficulty and its too much to reply again lol. Its a daily struggle we face. Trying not to give in but at the same time not wanting to be a whole outcast. I keep it in a perspective that doing/viewing what everyone (the media) does/sees as good is unhealthy for me. Gotta find the balance of picking and choosing what you like that's a popular view and being a rebel of the status quo! Well that's just me.
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