In my sixteen years, I can’t really say I’ve lived that much
or that I have achieved a great level of experience. But I’ve seen and I’ve
felt the strong influence society has on its members, people. Specially, on the
most vulnerable species, we could call it like that.
I’d like to quote a part of a lyric I like. “In a hateful
world, people would rather die than be who they are”
It’s really sad because it’s true. We can see, we can
perceive that natural is overrated; plastic and fake runs and rules everything
right now.
How many of us, has not been once not happy with our own
body. We see people getting surgeries for almost everything. Most of them, a
great majority only do it because of beauty. I remember something my mom told
me once, people who get a surgery won’t just stay there, if they can not accept
one simple apparent flaw, they will find when they aren’t, more and more flaws.
They will never be happy with how they look.
Another quote I would like tor refer to is: Love yourself
first so no has to. When you take a psychological test there’s always this
question that says “Describe yourself” We are afraid of this, and we stare at
the blank page and we think that a physics or a math test would be easier to
answer than that question.
That just shows how much we know about ourselves. We can’t
say I’m gonna be myself, or be yourself if we don’t even know who we are.
We can’t get to love ourselves if we don’t start by knowing
ourselves. We are our first own best friend. We should analyze our feelings,
the things that makes us happy, sad, angry. We should look for things that
could make us improve as a person, as a human, and throw away people, things
that makes us miserable, unhappy. We should be pointing what’s positive about
us, instead of criticizing ourselves all the time. It’s a destructive way to
treat yourself.
In order to accept ourselves is releasing other’s opinions
away. Most of the things we have come to believe of us, have no real fundament.
Now, for being the best ourselves we can be there’s an
example. A great example from nature, its this little flower, the lotus flower.
It’s a really special flower to me, for it’s meaning. The
lotus flower is known and admired in some religions and cultures. And the basic
meaning of it it’s purity.
The process of how it’s born it’s what makes this flower so
special. You see, this flower grows in muddy, dirty water. She emerges from it.
That's what it gave it the meaning. She rises and blooms above the dirt,
becoming an enlightening flower.
We are those little flowers, we are so beautiful and we can
just shine on the dirt. We have to be different, act like ourselves, be the
difference for once, show the world that no matter the problems, their bad
influence we can be like that little flower that provides beauty to its
surroundings. We can be the best of ourselves when we share the love we have
achieves to feel for each one of us, being nice with people, being helpful.
Treating people just like we want them to treat us. We have to remember that
what goes around comes back around, we get what we give.
If we could share all our positive thinking about life, if
we could think about how we make feel people, the world could change, for real.
