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Hey y'all! i'm back :D It's finally Friday! This week felt super long although it was just a 4 day week. So many things have been going through my mind... i wish i could just download all the things i have on my mind and share it with you all. i have been pretty down lately. Maybe because i miss home and im adjusting to being back at school preparing for tests and everything. Or maybe its just the quarter life crisis where you don't know where to go for uni or teenage syndrome when you are still in the midst of maturing and learning to handle things on your plate. If you ask me, i think one of the most challenging and uncertain times in your life is when you're a teenager. You're trying to figure out who you are, you're on the way to carving out a career or more like a degree that you will most probably stick with for the rest of your life... It does not help that the media just adds confusion to it all.
i'm gonna be very honest here. i'm gonna come clean. i AM a VICTIM of the media. It is my personal experience and it can get rather shocking. i may seem like an optimistic, happy, confident person but i was not always like that. Behind the new me lies a very DARK past. i know many teens like myself are constantly battling with ideas promoted by the media. i hope this post will encourage teens to challenge media stereotypes, love and care for themselves & their bodies. Okay... Where should i start?
As mentioned before, i was born with eczema as such, red patchy skin was a common sight on my body. For the longest time, my wardrobe consisted of jeans and long pants as i was afraid of showing my ugly skin. (yes, you have heard this before) It didn't help that my loved ones dissed my skin as well. i know they probably didn't mean it in a hurtful way. i guess they were just trying to protect me from getting stares from the ignorant people of society. Who knows? What they didn't know was that, this affected my self confidence really badly. i always felt ugly and insecure. i felt i was less than an ordinary person. :(
Many people are after beauty... What is beauty? The media portrays beauty as being skinny, having flawless skin, big eyes, sharp nose.... But is that really what beauty is? The Oxford dictionary defines beauty as 'a combination of qualities, such as shape, colour or form that pleases the aesthetics senses.'
The dictionary did not define beauty as being skinny or having flawless skin. What made us think of this stereotype? The media had the power to influence us and it 'abused' that power to make us feel worse about ourselves. i know many teens yearn to be beautiful but its sad that they do it in a way that harms their body. Click here to read an article of how anorexia harmed a teen's life. It started out with her mindless peers teasing her about her weight. They probably thought it was a joke but they did not realise the hurt that it causes. It hurts my heart to see teens especially females hurting and harming their bodies so as to gain approval from society and follow the norms of society. i wish i could go up to them, hug them and reassure them that they are beautiful. i know of people who are so stressed to attain society's standard of beauty that end up cutting themselves :'(
i'm gonna share a personal story here. well. let's call it my personal experience. No, it was not so serious compared to anorexia but i was pretty crazy about trying and working out different diets last year. But it felt like the more i tried to lose weight, the more weight i was gaining. I felt fat and unhappy all the time. It was not until youth camp that i was reassured by God and by my Christian mentors that i was indeed beautiful (maybe not in your eyes but) in God's eyes. Since then, i have been eating normally, im much happier and people have been saying that i lost weight. Funny logic huh?
I can't emphasize how much God loves you! He sent his only son to die on the cross to save you.
Isaiah 43:4
Since you are precious and honored in my sight, and because I love you, I will give men in exchange for you, and people in exchange for your life.
The world is so crazily obsessed with external beauty that people neglect internal beauty. i wish i could empower teens to be confident with their body and take good care of it. i have been through it & im still going through it. i know how it feels. To be different. It's not easy but i truly support and encourage teens to challenge media stereotypes. Dare to be different!
Yes, i know this post is rather hard to swallow. Congratulations! You've come to the end of my blog post! You survived! Haha :D Have a great weekend!
God's love & blessings always~
Xoxo
Supergirl Marissa
P.S. THIS IS MY 100th POST ON MY BLOGGGGGG~! HAPPY 100th POST!
i'm gonna be very honest here. i'm gonna come clean. i AM a VICTIM of the media. It is my personal experience and it can get rather shocking. i may seem like an optimistic, happy, confident person but i was not always like that. Behind the new me lies a very DARK past. i know many teens like myself are constantly battling with ideas promoted by the media. i hope this post will encourage teens to challenge media stereotypes, love and care for themselves & their bodies. Okay... Where should i start?
As mentioned before, i was born with eczema as such, red patchy skin was a common sight on my body. For the longest time, my wardrobe consisted of jeans and long pants as i was afraid of showing my ugly skin. (yes, you have heard this before) It didn't help that my loved ones dissed my skin as well. i know they probably didn't mean it in a hurtful way. i guess they were just trying to protect me from getting stares from the ignorant people of society. Who knows? What they didn't know was that, this affected my self confidence really badly. i always felt ugly and insecure. i felt i was less than an ordinary person. :(
Many people are after beauty... What is beauty? The media portrays beauty as being skinny, having flawless skin, big eyes, sharp nose.... But is that really what beauty is? The Oxford dictionary defines beauty as 'a combination of qualities, such as shape, colour or form that pleases the aesthetics senses.'
The dictionary did not define beauty as being skinny or having flawless skin. What made us think of this stereotype? The media had the power to influence us and it 'abused' that power to make us feel worse about ourselves. i know many teens yearn to be beautiful but its sad that they do it in a way that harms their body. Click here to read an article of how anorexia harmed a teen's life. It started out with her mindless peers teasing her about her weight. They probably thought it was a joke but they did not realise the hurt that it causes. It hurts my heart to see teens especially females hurting and harming their bodies so as to gain approval from society and follow the norms of society. i wish i could go up to them, hug them and reassure them that they are beautiful. i know of people who are so stressed to attain society's standard of beauty that end up cutting themselves :'(
i'm gonna share a personal story here. well. let's call it my personal experience. No, it was not so serious compared to anorexia but i was pretty crazy about trying and working out different diets last year. But it felt like the more i tried to lose weight, the more weight i was gaining. I felt fat and unhappy all the time. It was not until youth camp that i was reassured by God and by my Christian mentors that i was indeed beautiful (maybe not in your eyes but) in God's eyes. Since then, i have been eating normally, im much happier and people have been saying that i lost weight. Funny logic huh?
I can't emphasize how much God loves you! He sent his only son to die on the cross to save you.
Isaiah 43:4
Since you are precious and honored in my sight, and because I love you, I will give men in exchange for you, and people in exchange for your life.
The world is so crazily obsessed with external beauty that people neglect internal beauty. i wish i could empower teens to be confident with their body and take good care of it. i have been through it & im still going through it. i know how it feels. To be different. It's not easy but i truly support and encourage teens to challenge media stereotypes. Dare to be different!
Yes, i know this post is rather hard to swallow. Congratulations! You've come to the end of my blog post! You survived! Haha :D Have a great weekend!
God's love & blessings always~
Xoxo
Supergirl Marissa
P.S. THIS IS MY 100th POST ON MY BLOGGGGGG~! HAPPY 100th POST!
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