Redesigning Beauty

At 15 years old
there are teenagers everywhere holding technology over people,
When at 15- People prefer social media over physical communications,
When at 15- we are compared to girls who spend half their days in makeup stations and the other half in photoshop,
When at 15- girls believe they aren’t pretty enough, when males think they aren’t muscly enough for the outside world,
When at 15- we hold looks over brains,
When at 15- we are surrounded by commercialism where we are told we aren’t beautiful enough if we aren’t what looks like the cover of a magazine,
When at 15- we spend our days with a sea full of people but feel completely alone,
When at 15- social media tells us that we need material possessions to be beautiful,
When at 15- children feel the need to revise or redesign themselves to fit into what society thinks is normal,
When at 15-people are in hospital and others are in trouble with the law and there are others in class too scared to speak up, too scared of being judged and too scared of confrontation,
When in the hallways we are taught to look down and mind our own business,
I am not good enough,
When at 15- we should be educated, this is not how we should live,
When at 15- you should always be true to yourself, learn to put your phone down and stop comparing ourselves to other people, who are materialistic and fake, Put down the utensils of oppression grow strong in your own shoes
When at 15- you are beautiful and perfect just the way you are.

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