Why do we change who we are for people that do nothing for us? Why do we hide our true selves from the world? Why do we worry about what others think? Why Do hate ourselves when we get called a name? Why do we care? Why does anyones else's opinion matter? The answer to all of this is the most simple complicated answer possible and it is society. Society makes us think that emotion is weakness and that we need to be happy. Society tells us that we need to fit into the group. The group of popular kids that were athletes and jocks. That if you don't have a flat stomach and big arms that you were out of shape and need to work out and even after you've made progress it's not good enough until you look like a toy. And we get told that if we have depression or another mental disease that we were broken. Like we asked to be this way as if we could change the way we were born. And they tell is to take this medication or that one because itll help. But those are a temporary solution that doesn't work for a permanent problem. Our minds will always be like this. I know a girl who thinks she's not pretty enough or that she's not good enough for a guy that thinks he deserves her. A guy that only wants her for looks not realizing that she is so much more than another pretty face. This girl is one that knows me better than most of my family. This girl goes to school and gets good grades and is popular but she does all this with a mask on. Not a halloween mask but one scarier than imaginable. This mask is a fake happiness. I wear this mask too i drag myself out of bed every morning dreading going to school. But i do it everyday because that is what society has told me and everyone else that they had to do because we can't be different. If were different were weird or a freak. If you're different you are avoided and treated as if being around you would make them weird. I know another girl not as well that has Body Dysmorphic disorder who looks in the mirror and feels ugly. But this girl doesn't realize how beautiful she is and not just on a physical level. Beauty isn't just having a pretty face. Beauty is being kind caring and being a genuinely nice person. But thanks to society whenever she is called beautiful she shrugs it off with a thank you because she doesn't see it . she can't see that she is beautiful but not just on the outside but on the inside. She can't see it because her mind is a war telling her she's not pretty enough and that her body isn't like a supermodels. But she comes to school like the rest of us and puts on that terrible mask to fit in. This mask sounds like it helps because it saves the problems in public but when we get home and take of that mask we realize that the mask does not deselect all the bad things in brings them in and hides them until we take the mask off. I personally cannot count how many times i've gone to school with that mask come home laid in bed and refused to move whether it be to eat or to help my family. I couldn't move. The mental pain was so bad that it became physical. Society is said to be something that makes us better but how os it better if we have people going home and being paralyzed by the mental anguish caused by it now I say im gonna take of this mask and be myself and we've all said that. But as soon as we try it we realize that the mask saving it until we go home stops us from showing those emotions that are said to make you look weak. Because society has to;ld us that if you are sad or unhappy that you are a problem because you are not what was seen as perfect. So the answer to why is society. And the answer to society's problems are the same as why. So me and the two girls i talked about are a few of the examples of why society is a problem and why we do the things we do.
