혼자 》Poetry

-=Pressure To Be Perfect=-

The pressure to be perfect is hard to break.
When it's shoved in your face every single day.
Perfect lives splattered on our screens,
the same old pictures on constant repeat.
When you see the same thing, it conditions your brain,
manipulates your mind till you think the same,
and naturally you stop and start to compare,
how you wish that was you, how life isn't fair?

So you go to the gym and try to be healthy
do crazy diets, take millions of selfies.
Pushing yourself yet never satisfied,
cause you're comparing yourself to what you see online.
Pick yourself apart, how you hate this and that.
How you don't like your face or think you're too fat.
Want instant results from the first day,
and end disappointed cause it doesn't work that way.

Waxing, eyebrows, full face of makeup,
pressure to be perfect from the moment you wake up.
Editing pictures with filters and apps,
skipping meals, do an extra lap.
Critique everything - from the clothes that you wear,
your relationship status or the colour of your hair.
Spend hours taking selfies to post them online,
but can never find any that you really like.

Cause you're used to seeing filters and facetune edits,
when you see something real, you don't give it credit.
Now with social media, the pressures unreal,
likes and comments affects how you feel.

The constant need to seek validation
has corrupted the minds of this generation.
Relationship, friendship - it's always about goals,
that's all you ever see whenever you scroll.
So we push and we push and we push ourselves,
until we break and it affects our health,
we try so hard to look great online,
which makes us feel insecure inside.
Every selfie must be perfect, every caption - funny,
you have to get a job that pays a lot of money.
Manage your career with a great social life,
the perfect combo - house, kids and wife.

We've set our lives against expectations,
it's not realistic, there's limitations.
I'm not saying don't try and aim to be better,
of course you should, be a goal setter.
Just don't lose who you are along the way,
and try to change yourself to fit in someway.
all you can do is try your best,
there's really no need to compete with the rest.
The only standard to uphold is the one you set yourself,
it's okay to struggle and ask for help.
We don't have to be great all the time,
and create this perfect image online.
We're learning, growing, figuring it out,
make your own rules and make it count.
It's okay to fail and make mistakes.
I'd rather be real than someone fake.

Truth is, life's too short to be something you're not.
So take a step back and appreciate what you've got.
Tearing myself down is just not fun.
That's it I'm out, officially done.