After starting a research assignment in my English class about Photoshop and how its effected girls psychologically it disturbs me how much something can effect how someone perceives them self. Being someone who tends to swim in the opposite direction of the fashion trends, I wear shirts that aren't skin tight, and dare I say it?!?!? I don't wear make-up most days, and when I do it's generally unnoticed compared to the wild and more....noticeable styles in the hallways. I'm okay with walking into school and wearing sweats and a t-shirt, I'm okay with not showing every piece of skin available to be shown, and I'm okay with not exposing my boobs all the way down to my nipples. Believe me I'm way okay with wearing shirts that hit at my collar bone! I've always realized that images in magazines were edited but never truly to exactly HOW edited they where. To look like these models us girls would have to somehow manage to eat practically nothing while going in for plastic surgery in order to make ourselves look healthy while also reshaping, plumping, and enhancing everything. We'd have to have perfect skin, minimal pores, and if your lashes are less than 2 inches long, well, don't even try to put on that mascara! We'd have to make sure that our teeth were white enough, our eyes large enough and your skin better be either extremely tan or deathly pale. I've never considered myself an ugly person, but if you look at these standards of beauty I'm the ugliest thing to walk the planet! Thankfully I don't care about these things. I love my flaws! My freckles make me different, my eyes area not huge like an anime character's but that's okay, I don't need 5 inch corneas that make tennis balls look tiny. Though many girls complain about things like chest size and other things, I feel that mine fits me, it's proportional to how I'm supposed to be. My legs may not be toned and the size of pencils, and my stomach isn't perfectly flat and tan, but that little bit of fat on my tummy means that I can support life without a problem and my legs, though not thunder thighs by any means, mean that I actually use them to walk with, not spread wide for everyone in the world to have sex with. My face may not be the clearest of them all, but acne is a given, everyone gets it! So what if you've got a pimple on your nose! Everyone does at some point or another. What is even more beautiful to me is that I'm noticed for my personality before my looks, people notice my love for Superman before they notice my imperfect eyes or my not so slim nose. People notice me for being me, not for how I dress, they notice that I actually know what is going on in class rather than what label my jeans are. There's a poster in my health class that summarizes everything! In 30 years in won't matter what jeans you wore or what you looked like, it'll matter what you learned and how you used it, and if you were true to yourself!
This is my blog, it's where I express my feelings and emotions of my heart freely. THESE ARE ONLY EMOTIONS AND FEELINGS! PLEASE DO NOT OVER REACT TO IT! This is where I let everything out and I don't really care who sees it and who doesn't because I'm not ashamed of what I say or write. This contains my thoughts from when I was 13 till now. PLEASE DON'T TAKE IT ALL LITERALLY!!!! Thanks!
Sunday, February 7, 2010
What's the point?!!?
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You have an amazing perspective on life...Not many people can see through the influences of society let alone show plain out that they are above those influences and be themselves.
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