Saturday, June 30, 2012

“Taught from infancy that beauty is woman’s scepter, the mind shapes itself to the body and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison” (Wollstonecraft, 1792).

Sometimes its easy to get entranced by society's expectations for what beauty is. Like Andre 3000 said :"
I see the pecking order
Quote-unquote "bad bitches" work the whole floor
Those that get laughed at sit off in the corner
Like a lab rat nobody want her"

We have been taught from a very young age that BEAUTY IS EVERYTHING. The world tells is that to succeed in life, you must be beautiful, and since mainstream society has always set the standard for what beauty is, in this time and age it basically means you must be: Tall, Thin, Fair/Fair skinned, etc etc. That's why people all around the world erode their skins with bleaching creams, tan their skin, bleach their teeth, bleach their hair, starve themselves skinny, spend hours at the gym..and the list goes on. Like the generations before us, sometimes we become shackled by societal conventions of what beauty is or should be.


Let the image above remind us all that there is beauty in STRENGTH, there is beauty in CONVICTION, there is beauty in INTELLECT, there is beauty in PRIDE, there is beauty in FAITH, there is beauty in RESILIENCE, there is beauty in PERSEVERANCE, there is beauty in SURVIVAL, there is beauty in SOLITUDE,  in general there is beauty IN LIFE..and it transcends whatever poppycock the media tries to shove down our throats. 


WE ARE ALL CAPABLE OF MUCH MORE THAN BEING LOOKED AT.
WE ARE CAPABLE OF BEING LEGACIES.
WE ARE CAPABLE OF CHANGING THE WORLD
WE ARE CAPABLE OF CHANGING OURSELVES
WE ARE CAPABLE OF LOVING OURSELVES
WE ARE CAPABLE OF EMBARKING THE JOURNEY TO SELF-ACTUALIZING
WE ARE CAPABLE OF BEING!

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