The billboards and magazines are covered with their flawless faces and plastic bodies. Perfect makeup, perfect lips, perfect hourglass. But that's not what a normal, average, everyday woman looks like. We have bumps and scars and stretch marks that we don't have the money or will to hide. We don't have to nor can we pour our money into fixing every so-called flaw on our bodies.
And that's okay.
Our bodies grow and stretch and heal to keeps us alive and moving.
You don't need to achieve perfection to be beautiful.
We all have our uniqueness to make us attractive. Your beauty can't be taken away from you because of a few scars or freckles. It is the very essence of you. You are beautiful. Your crooked smile, your love handles, your freckles. They are all beautiful.
As young women especially we are pressured to conform to the societal standards of beauty. And most of us, at some point in our lives, blindly believe and try to fit society's definition of what a woman should look like. But why? Why does society force standards upon us that most women can never fit? It is being elitist, preferring and praising European features over those of other nationalities and ethnicities. Preferring skeletal figures over strong and real ones.
By the time we even start to see the flaws of society, its poisonous ways of thinking have already infiltrated us. And we push against them every day but sometimes, the poisons surpass the antidote of our minds and make us feel like we aren't good enough or that something is wrong with us.
But no matter how hard it gets, no matter how much we allow the poison to cause us suffering, we must always keep fighting. We can't let these stupid, unreachable standards deny us our right to feel worthy and beautiful.