Step up and love yourself. :)

Exorcism, by Heather Keith Freeman.

I absolutely love what the artist wrote here:

“You know that incredibly loathsome phrase, ‘Inside every fat person is a thin person struggling to get out?’

Well, it’s kind of true. Except the thin person is not the perfectly healthy, sexy ideal person our culture would like you to believe. No, the thin person inside us is artificially starved, surgically reproportioned, plastic sculpted to make us perfectly pretty, empty-headed dolls.

The thin person inside us is Barbie.

GET IT OUT OF ME.

This is the representation of the voice in our ear whispering that we are worthless, ugly freaks if we don’t spend every spare moment exercising and every meal eating salad.

This is the urge to read the fashion magazines that leave us feeling shamed and fat and poor.

This is every cringe when we look in the mirror in the morning and see nothing but flaws.

This is the Disney princess and the Playboy centerfold and the meanest, prettiest cheerleader in the school.

This is the plastic mantra that we can’t unhear, repeating incessantly that we are only valued by our appearance, and by whether men want to fuck us.

And it’s inside me, permeating my being, poisoning my mind in ways I don’t even realize because it’s always been there.

GET IT OUT OF ME.”

It couldn’t be more true. I know because I go through this. Though I keep a front, I am not happy with my body for the most part. Sometimes I envy the skinnier/fit girl. In fact, more than ever now. Not because I think we should all be these little skinny gremlins, but because I just don’t feel good in my skin. In no way am I obese, I just have some extra pounds that don’t need to be there. But we have to love ourselves for who we are, instead of trying to be something we’re not. In my case, I’m not changing myself, I’m still me; just a little bit more healthier. I’m changing because I feel that I’ll be more comfortable in my skin. Changing ourselves to please others is wrong, on all levels.. Of course there is room for change, in anything really, but we should do it for ourselves instead of others; to fit their expectations or wants. To fit in a society where everything is messed up in it’s own twisted way.

We live in a society that isn’t fair, is judgmental, controlling, and down right crude. Our society accepts outrageous concepts, drives on drama related TV shows, and the ideal dream of becoming this fake barbie doll that rids us of our modesty and dignity. Be happy with who you are, what you’ve come to be, or are striving to be. Because you’re wonderful just the way you are. Appearance isn’t everything, in fact it should come last on a scale of who you are. In the dream world I want, society excepts everyone for who they are and isn’t brain washing people into thinking their nothing special. Because everyone is special in their own way, in their own time; where they can shine. But only if they believe in themselves and have that rightful confidence.

Not to end on an even more corny note, but Green Day has spelled it out for us. Let’s be the Minority.