Body positivity is social medias new all around trend. It should be no surprise anymore that we see a variety of different social media accounts on about how you should love your body, keep it healthy, and how to stay confident. Food, workout suggestions, and even confidence tips are spread to the young impressionable viewers from the comfort of their own homes. Newsflash: this should not be a trend.
As we're all aware, social media is a very tricky thing. It allows everyone and anyone to access just about anything right from their handheld device. But what happens when the viewer is more impressionable than we're aware?
We all know tweens, preteens, and teenagers over the years have always had some sort of public influence during their awkward stage but this day and age makes it way more complex. The previous generations of teenagers, before the internet, relied on television and magazines for beauty goals and standards, making it way more straightforward. These days, however, it's easier for a teen to go on the web, see an Instagram account that caters to their liking and follow it, making their standards a lot different than the next.
If you're aware of how the internet works, you would know that all cultures and lifestyles are shown. Naturally, we are opened to things that are different for us. For example, maybe you had no idea you could live substantially on a diet without any animal products until you stumble across VeganGirl101 on Instagram. Or maybe you didn't know that your body type could be accepted until you read the comments on a girls photo with the same body type as yours, getting nothing but positive feedback. Really, it is a fascinating, refreshing, and positive time for not only the impressionable but everyone else.
But here's my thing that we all should take into consideration: being body positive should not be a trend. I can't help myself but get a little giddy every time I see a man or a woman post a picture of their "unaccepted" body confident and in return, get positive feedback from others. It makes me really believe that we can, in fact, love and accept others for who they are.
A trend, however, is a change in which people are behaving and as we know, these trends change quite frequently. Instead of just accepting each other for a short amount of time or because that's the trending hashtag on Twitter, we need to really stick up for each other and all body types. Because let's face it, this time is amazing. It's such a positive and refreshing thing for us to all really be happy and confident and accepting of others. It's great for the children to see and overall an amazing thing to practice. Let's not let this just be a trend. Let's turn this into a normality.
Friday, September 15, 2017
Thursday, September 14, 2017
That Old Dresser
I have this old dresser in my bedroom I got six years ago. It's tall, narrow, and brown with splotches of red marker from the previous owner. It's rickety and the drawers on it are hard to open and when you do finally get it to after hours of pushing and pulling, it gives a screech loud enough to bust your eardrums.
This dresser is awful and because of it, I use it to store my personal things that I don't need every day, such as my old writings, CDs, and other memory-related things. I only use it actively for the top of it to keep things on it such as makeup, my water bottle, and other miscellaneous items. On the other side of my room, however, I have brand new clean white dressers that open and close perfectly.
It's so big and annoying that I never had plans to do anything with it. I always told myself that if anything ever falls from the top and gets under it, I should just consider it gone. Well, that was until yesterday. I'm not the type that has to wear makeup everyday but like your average female, I do like to wear it every now and again. My foundation fell under it and of course, that meant I had to do the unthinkable: move this dang dresser.
That's exactly what I did and in the process, I cleaned everything. No, I didn't find anything under it that was life-changing and yes, I did find my makeup and yes, there is a point to this blog post.
As I began to clean under it, around it, and even on top of it, I thought to myself, how many things get tossed to the side because it's old. How many old relationships of any kind get tossed away just because it was something that happened more than five years ago? This dresser didn't do anything to me, it just didn't do anything for me. But letting it go wasn't right on my part. When I do that, it collects dust, gets dirty, and becomes more run down than before. When you let a person go, it does the same for your relationship.
Every once in awhile, I catch myself missing someone I used to converse with. I eventually let it go, thinking why does it matter? Obviously, they don't miss me so why should I miss them? Surprisingly, I'm not the only one who does this. When two old friends think this same thought, you build an unnecessary barrier between the both of you and those five years can turn into ten. It can damage the amazing relationship you once had with this person just because you didn't give them that phone call first. And, for lack of better terms, it sucks.
Sure, I have shiny new dressers (or new friends) but that dresser and I have history and at the end of the day, it is not useless. I took the time to clean it. I actually appreciated it for what it was and what it has done for me in the past six years.
You have to do that with people. Even if you still talk to said person, make sure you take time out of your day to really let the person know how grateful you are for them in your life. Sometimes, we take those simple things for granted. You have to appreciate what you got and love every little last piece of it.
If you take anything from this blog from a crazy lady having an emotional connection with her dresser, think of this: there is at least one person that you miss that most likely misses you too. Sometimes rekindling old friendships aren't so bad, even if things weren't left on such good terms. So seriously, take my advice and run with it. Don't let those relationships become old run down dressers.
This dresser is awful and because of it, I use it to store my personal things that I don't need every day, such as my old writings, CDs, and other memory-related things. I only use it actively for the top of it to keep things on it such as makeup, my water bottle, and other miscellaneous items. On the other side of my room, however, I have brand new clean white dressers that open and close perfectly.
It's so big and annoying that I never had plans to do anything with it. I always told myself that if anything ever falls from the top and gets under it, I should just consider it gone. Well, that was until yesterday. I'm not the type that has to wear makeup everyday but like your average female, I do like to wear it every now and again. My foundation fell under it and of course, that meant I had to do the unthinkable: move this dang dresser.
That's exactly what I did and in the process, I cleaned everything. No, I didn't find anything under it that was life-changing and yes, I did find my makeup and yes, there is a point to this blog post.
As I began to clean under it, around it, and even on top of it, I thought to myself, how many things get tossed to the side because it's old. How many old relationships of any kind get tossed away just because it was something that happened more than five years ago? This dresser didn't do anything to me, it just didn't do anything for me. But letting it go wasn't right on my part. When I do that, it collects dust, gets dirty, and becomes more run down than before. When you let a person go, it does the same for your relationship.
Every once in awhile, I catch myself missing someone I used to converse with. I eventually let it go, thinking why does it matter? Obviously, they don't miss me so why should I miss them? Surprisingly, I'm not the only one who does this. When two old friends think this same thought, you build an unnecessary barrier between the both of you and those five years can turn into ten. It can damage the amazing relationship you once had with this person just because you didn't give them that phone call first. And, for lack of better terms, it sucks.
Sure, I have shiny new dressers (or new friends) but that dresser and I have history and at the end of the day, it is not useless. I took the time to clean it. I actually appreciated it for what it was and what it has done for me in the past six years.
You have to do that with people. Even if you still talk to said person, make sure you take time out of your day to really let the person know how grateful you are for them in your life. Sometimes, we take those simple things for granted. You have to appreciate what you got and love every little last piece of it.
If you take anything from this blog from a crazy lady having an emotional connection with her dresser, think of this: there is at least one person that you miss that most likely misses you too. Sometimes rekindling old friendships aren't so bad, even if things weren't left on such good terms. So seriously, take my advice and run with it. Don't let those relationships become old run down dressers.
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