Do you remember the time when you wish you was a tad bit skinnier? If that does not apply to you, do you remember the time you wish you was a tad bit bigger? Forget about size, do you find other people more attractive than you? In today society, one thing that is highly noticeable is the low self esteem. There has never been a time I heard someone say they are completely happy with their body figure or the image they have. Instead they always want this or that. Its never satisfaction with what they have. For example, I went to my barber the other day. We were talking about what we both wanted within ourselves. I wanted to lose weight, and he wanted to gain weight. The whole time I am wishing I can have the perfect body weight that he has while in reality, he wants to be somewhat close to my size. Why can't we feel comfortable with our bodies? I know females that are beautiful and call themselves ugly. I can never tell if it is to get attention, but deep down, it hurts hearing someone view themselves in that manner. We all lost a sense of identity. We lose ourselves trying to become the ideal image society depicts. Because of this, some women are internally degrading themselves. These type of women have low self esteem, confidence, and pride in themselves. They are too worried about pleasing others that they are actually not pleasing themselves. For instance, there are a total of 100 men in this office. 99 of them told the same female that she is gorgeous. However, the remaining male told the female that is not the beautiful, she is actually ugly. That one comment will stick with the female more than the 99 compliments she received before the insult.
Why is it like this? Not all females are like this, but I haven't met one female without insecurities about herself. I am not saying men do not have insecurities either, but due to the typical stereotype of men being masculine and men do not cry or show any emotions, their insecurities are overlooked. We can not solve a problem if we do not know it exists. Some of these females need to realize that they take their lives for granted. There is always another person wishing they had the life that you are living. It might be hard to distinguish these type of people due to everyone having pride, and will be hard to admit it, but people are jealous of the things you have and possess.
I know my blogs do not receive staggering amount of views every week, but for those that are reading it, the moral of the story, male or female, is: do not take your life for granted. Your life is awesome because there will always be someone out there that is having it worse than you. There are people with diseases, with syndromes that can be fixed, and disabled people that are living life with no regrets. Forget about other people's judgments, do what makes you happy.
This seemed like the beginning of a paradigm shift pitch! I wonder if there was a certain decade when self depreciation became so 'fashionable' amongst men and women. Nice post!
ReplyDeleteThis was a very nice post since it is something we all see practically everyday.
ReplyDeleteWow, I am very enlightened that you can use the term "paradigm" shift in such posts! Very nice things that we can all be familiar with, expressing our self in the area of fashion.
ReplyDeleteReally good message in this one.
ReplyDeleteNice point to be made, especially today. Have you considered inspirational speeches? :)
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