Everywhere on social media, men and women post perfect pictures of their bodies and faces, making it look like their imperfections are inexistent and unreal. We, as normal, maybe even weird, human beings – look at these people as our role models and ‘omg, goals‘. We never really think about the face hidden underneath those layers of foundation and filters, or the extra curves in one’s body.
It’s all about the look, right?
Makeup isn’t a sin, so aren’t filters. Looking beautiful isn’t a sin. But being cruel towards those who are physically and facially inferior to you is a sin.
You can have a flawless body, and have a heart of gold. You can have an imperfect body and have a heart of stone. You can have a flawless body, and have a heart of stone. You can have an imperfect body and have a heart of gold. It doesn’t matter how you appear to people. In the end, will your children be brought up and taught by your beauty or by your intellect?
My entire life has been spent scrolling through social media websites that have flawless photographs of flawless people, living their flawless lives. It seemed so real at first, like I was the only one in the world with dorky glasses and acne and flab. I was so jealous of people with skinny waists and plump lips and curves in all the right places. Perfect characters in perfect movies and perfect books falling in love with perfect people – it made me feel like I wouldn’t attract anyone’s attention.
I don’t have a perfect face like people do, I don’t have coloured eyes or tanned skin or perfect hair and flawless skin. And if you do, that’s great.
But just remember, you may be beautiful on the outside. But what’s the point? Your partner is going to leave you if you aren’t beautiful on the inside. Don’t stereotype, thats bullsh*t. If you’re skinny and pretty, good for you. If you aren’t, don’t worry about it.
People have read these kinds of posts everywhere – so have I. But we write this and give assurance to people for a reason, right? We don’t just bark out words and wait for you to smile and nod in acceptance and acknowledgement.
This is a website which is… different. It helps people – it helped me. It made me feel like I wasn’t the only one, you know? Other people are going through sh*t, too.
So, yes, difference is awesome. Be different. Be you. Be beautiful on the inside. Be kind and loving, but be courageous and strong. You have to learn to realise that every face is a façade in the end. Even beautiful people have imperfections, maybe their parents fight too much, maybe they had a bad breakup with someone they really loved, maybe they had a divorce, maybe they had an abortion, maybe they get bullied, maybe they are abused, maybe, maybe, maybe.
Don’t let social media fool you. Just like you and me, those perfect people aren’t really perfect at all. They have imperfections, maybe on the inside, just like some of us have it on the outside.
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Same could be said of any kind of marketing or propaganda, and i refer to it like that because if you think about it, social media is people selling you an image of themselves, as if they were a brand or an item. As long as there are people buying there will be people selling, but like you say, we can choose to buy or not, even if that comes with consequences as well. Thanks for sharing this.
Thats a pretty good way of putting it. Thank you.