Perfectly Imperfect

By: Chloe Chan

“You are perfect” is that an insult or a compliment? Being perfect isn’t realistic, imagine having no flaws, would you want that. All our bodies have their own flaws, and that’s what makes us unique, different, special, flaws are beautiful in its own way, flaws make us human.

Society creates an impossible image for us, making us feel like there is a need to have to change our body to fit in society. I myself thought that if I reached perfection, people would like me better, hourglass waist, thinner thighs, flatter stomach, but do these really matter? Reaching the utmost perfection, does that satisfy you? At the end it doesn’t matter at all, because everybody has its own flaws, but we have our different strengths.

The word “pretty” and “ugly” does not define the way you look, everyone can be pretty these days because of cosmetics, but you should be only putting it on because you’d like to, not because you feel like you’re not pretty enough, not because someone tells you to or makes you feel like you need to.

Social media is definitely takes part in teenagers life, social media allows us to show a profile of ourselves, the good side we want everyone to see, because if we didn’t post the good side of ourselves, we wouldn’t get the amount of followers we have now, we wouldn’t get the amount of views we have now, and for sure we wouldn’t get the amount of likes we have now. The truth is that we are afraid to be viewed ugly or fat, because we are afraid to get judged.

We spend so much time feeling insecure about our body, but if we accepted our own flaws; then we wouldn’t have to worry about your appearance, we wouldn’t have to limit the amount of food we eat, and we wouldn’t have to worry about how we look compared to others.

Our body does so much for us, it allows the different flavors food can provide us, it allows us to smell the different scents nature can provide us, it allows us to walk to beautiful places that are provided to us. We should love how our body provides us so much, instead of being insecure of the small flaws our body carries, we should appreciate the beauty it brings.

Our imperfect moments may be our most defining moments. It was said by a guy named Flett that, “Learning how to accept oneself and accept other people is essential for life.” We should accept the ideal of imperfection because it’s unique, if we worry less about our opinions and pressure on ourselves, we could receive love and acceptance instead of reaching idealism.

Idealism is not the goal we are striving to achieve, but instead accepting ourselves would be beneficial to yourself, I am perfectly imperfect, you are perfectly imperfect, we are perfectly imperfectly