Lately, I feel like my Instagram homepage has been filled with people I follow feeling the pressure to prove what they're packing. We're living in a time where there's so much stress trying to look good all of the time. Feeling the pressure to be skinny, toned, muscular, contoured, and having the perfect body seems like it's on everyone's agenda these days. Even though it's important to be healthy, eat healthy, and stay active, I can't help but feel like most of us do it for the wrong reasons. We're not doing it enough for ourselves as much as we are to feel accepted by society, our peers, and especially social media.

You're probably convinced I'm salty but really I'm just tired of seeing my friend's feeling like they have to take riské pictures in their sport bras and leggings just to prove something to people they don't even like. Not everyone deserves to see what you're assets are on the outside. *insert forefinger up emoji* I'm not saying you shouldn't feel good about yourself, if you know me you know how much I preach about self-worth and feeling good about yourself. But we live in a time where showing out seems to be everything. We're so consumed on impressing people, when we haven't even impressed ourselves yet. We look to others to do that for us but never get fulfillment out of it.

I'm at this point in my life where the only person I want to impress is me. I've given up on trying to impress everyone, spending 2 hours on my hair and makeup isn't as important as it used to seem when all I plan on doing after my math class is Netflixing and chilling with my dog. Basically the point I wanted to make with this article is that you shouldn't feel like the only way to impress people and feel good about yourself is by posting pictures of your half naked body all of the time, never sell yourself short of doing that. I don't want to see what's on the outside, I want to know more about what's on the inside. Six packs and boobs are nice, but so is Chik Fil A and you don't see me posting that on Instagram all the time. Let's motivate each other for the right reasons, after all, it's not a bad idea to start that New Years resolutions list! xo.