The mass media abuse our insecurities with all kinds of messages from 'so and so has gained weight' to using photoshop to correct each and every flaw that anyone has.
So, what is this doing to us? It's teaching us that we will never be good enough. That we must constantly try to better ourselves. But who is this for? We may say ourselves but untimately we know that's not true. Girls wouldn't spend hours each week in front of the mirror painting 'perfection' onto their faces, and boys wouldn't slave away in the gym so they could have an 'impressive' body just to impress themselves, would they?
Now, that was a huge generalisation and I am completely aware of that. I am actually one of the girls that doesn't wear make up and I know plenty of guys who don't go to the gym but are still happy with themselves. And how are we perceived by society? Normal.
So why do some people believe they constantly need to change themselves? It's because they have never properly been taught how to accept themselves.
It should be easy to learn to accept yourself, but it's not because we are constantly reminded of the imperfections of others so we eventually start to see them in ourselves.
This isn't the kind of world I want to live in, but there is no escape from this constant comparison.
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