Wake up. Take a run. Jump in the shower. Put on the newest name brand apparel. Slave over hair and makeup until the ideal appearance is achieved. Go to school or work. Go to the gym. Go home, eat healthy, and be in bed at a decent time. Repeat.
Welcome to the perfect societal expectations of your life: this routine must be perfectly accomplished every single weekday. What about weekends you ask? On weekends you must maintain that perfect ideal appearance while working out and going out with friends, you social butterfly you.
Wake up people everywhere: this system is broken. In order to be accepted, you have to look a certain way, weigh a certain weight, and live a certain life. How is this plausible if every person is created unique; how could there even be a standard of what to be?
It makes no sense, yet we let it control us; we let this standard completely alter how we view ourselves. Too skinny, too fat, too tall, too short, too busy, too lazy, too social, too lonely- this life can easily become way too much to try to handle.
You only have one life, shouldn't you enjoy it? Society is forever changing, meaning that expectations will be constantly changing.There will always be a reason you aren't "perfect" in society's eyes, but should you allow that to be a reason you will not love yourself and enjoy this life you have been given?
Society should not be the one to dictate who you are and how you view yourself. Studies show that you tend to base how you view yourself off of the person you view as most important in your life; yet, when you view the public eye is most important is when you get caught in this web of societal expectations.
So who can you make most important in this life to avoid this web? Two words: Jesus Christ. Jesus views you in the best and beautiful ways, he sees you as imperfect perfection in a world that is constantly pursuing perfection. When Jesus has the number one spot in your life, you begin to see how He has beautifully and wonderfully created you, and you begin to fall in love with yourself, not in a narcissistic fashion, but in the purest and healthiest way.
Once you accept Jesus's view of yourself, societal expectations don't mean the slightest. Who cares what society says when the King of Kings views you as amazing creations?
Do yourself a favor, and forget what society thinks. Reject the norm. Make Jesus your number one person in your life and begin to see the beauty in everything, including yourself.
