One Urban Dictionary definition says:
Beauty is a corporate invention designed to promote the suffering and insecurity of the masses for the sake of profit. They say it's a state we're all supposed to be achieve, in order to ensure economic, financial, social and recreational success. There is a ridiculous double standard in society at the moment. An attractive blonde who never bothers to do anything useful gets more respect than an ugly git who has the courage and determination to get the f**k out there and do something for him/herself in this world and not be a parasite.
Well, damn, pretty well said, I'd say....I wish I could have come up with that myself, I just phrase things badly. Anyway,
'BEAUTY' IS UGLY.
It's not something we need to lower our selfs to strive for.
Saying this, I know I'm being a COMPLETE hypocrite for saying this, but 'beauty' now a days, is just something some skinny person found fashionable, and got a boyfriend for. Another girl saw her do this, and tried it herself - it was just a chain reaction, that then the media took advantage of.
The media KNOWS what kind of an impact their 'beauty' has on teenagers - girls AND boys. But they do nothing.
WHY SHOULD WE RESPECT SOMEONE/SOMETHING THAT PUTS US THROUGH THIS TO BECOME 'BEAUTIFUL' IN THEIR EYES - ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY DO NOTHING WILE WE'RE SUFFERING SO MUCH.
It puts us through so much pain --
- We go anorexic/bulimic to become skinny to get that boyfriend
- We change our hair to fit the 'in styles'
- We buy expensive brand clothes to 'fit in'
- We cake our face in make up to look 'pretty'
- We feel inferior if we don't have a boyfriend before 15
- We cry when we break up with him/he with us
- We hate our selfs when we aren't as pretty as someone else
- We assume we're ugly when we are rejected by someone, when that's not the real reason
- We feel empty when there isn't a boy
- We think having a boyfriend is everything
- We hurt our selfs when we think we're ugly and feel empty.
- We hate those prettier than our selfs, though its not their fault, nor ours.
I don't know about you, but that seems like alot to pay for just for what movies and magazines think 'beauty' is.
I am not beautiful, I am not perfect, I am not pretty, I am not athletic, but I understand what the media has done to me, and I am pledging to make this life a better life. I will be happy. I will be social. I will make friends. I will forget what I dont need. I will stop crying. I will find positive things, and forget the negative. I am going to live out this school year, and start new. I will be who I am, not who they want me to be.
Who wants to pledge with me? <3
~There is ALWAYS a SHINNING SUN behind every BROKEN CLOUD <3
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