Change For Who? Response Post

"The thing about society is that people - a lot of them being mostly women - want to alter something about their body. They don't appriciate what they have, they complain, then they try to change it. Some want to look like celebrities, some like their friends, who the hell knows."

     I took this quote from Ruby Rew's blog. I agree with every word that Ruby said. In my earlier response post on Crystal Lau's prosthetic body parts post, I expressed a lot of how I felt about how people constantly want to change themselves. Here, I would like to talk about how specifically society causes everyone to feel unstable. Society, like Ruby said, forces people to be very conscience about their bodies and their looks in general. Many people fail to recognize the fact that they have everything they need to beautiful in their own unique way and not in the way that all society wants them to be.
     Society wants everyone to follow one trend and to look a certain way in order to seem beautiful. Everyone falls for this trap and many cannot catch themselves in the act of doing so. We constantly subject ourselves to the pitfalls of society when we strive to become someone we are not to blend into society. And because our society's normalities are constantly changing, we force ourselves to keep track of all the specific trends and looks of "today". And then following this obsession we all have, we change ourselves, our style, our personality to become what society's model of a perfect person is.  Many times this "perfect person" is flawless in every aspect. They have the perfect body, the shiny soft hair, the flawless skin and the blend of all the best looks. But it's obviously impossible to become that person. Even when you try to change everything about yourself, you will never be satisfied because all you can think about is being more and more attractive in society's eyes.
     We have to realize that we are all beautiful no matter what society labels as it's definition of beautiful. There shouldn't be a time in which you don't feel like your're not enough simply because you are not society's model of "perfect". Do not let the voice of society keep you from being you and believing that you are awesome the way you are.