In our society nowadays we see so many different adverts telling us to change. I for one know that trying to keep up with everything can be exhausting. No one has that much time to constantly be following the next big trend. We are all different and what may work for some may not work for the rest of us. What happened to being happy with who you are? who says you have to use all these diets and new pills to be happy with how you look. Inner beauty comes from accepting our flaws and embracing them. I used to struggle with trying to look like all the models but it was killing me. There were so many times when all I wanted to do was puke it all up just to look the thinnest. When I was in middle school I started taking weight loss pills to drop weight. Then when that didn't work I resorted to starving myself and then I tried to kill myself. My family didn't know that I was trying to kill myself until they noticed me take 12 Tylenol. They made me drink milk and they almost took me to the hospital. Girls and women are force fed the idea that the happiest people and most successful are thin and have all the right assets.
Now that I am older I know that all those years I tried to be something I wasn't was wasted time. If I had listened to myself and looked within I would have found that I was beautiful already. There is more than one form of beauty in this world. We should be teaching ourselves and those around us that true beauty comes from knowing who you are and owning it. You don't have to be the thinnest or the girl starving herself. Sure we all see those commercials talking about freezing the fat away or that if you drink this tea you will lose weight over a week. We are only promised one life and why waste time trying to be something fake when we can love who we are becoming. I still struggle with body issues but I think to where I used to be and I am glad I am not that woman anymore. Don't make yourself hate who you see in the mirror. Let the seed of confidence grow from the acceptance of your flaws.
