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We Are

Not Enough

I have found myself judging my whole appearance past 7 pm was bad and starving ourselves was
in front on the mirror one day. Did I have too good. Hamburger, pizza, pasta; they were all
much there? Did I have too less there? Nothing bad.The actual problem was the fact that they
was enough. We could not suffice anything, or the had coded these things under the name of health
to younger brains.
rules some have set up.

In fact, we have started to clap those brands who The thing is we don’t have to fully like our bodies,
had used “plus size” models on advertisements. we just have to accept them the way they are.
We, ourselves have already alienated “plus size” There is nothing wrong with wanting to change.
models, and of course people, while clapping However, the question is for whom and for what’s
something normal and usual. The fallacy that fats sake we want to change, for our own happiness
and cellulites were flaws had processed into our or for the sake of the standards of the society?
brains with the photos on magazine covers. Other We don’t have to love and embrace our body no
people’s bodies were a tool for news in front of matter what, we may want to lose weight, gain
the whole world. Their details had been grown weight, have plastic surgery, yet and yet again for
out of them and it had become their ugliness. ourselves, for our own satisfaction. Our bodies
Degrading people in front of millions was also our are ours and we can’t change that. We need effort
new normal. to accept things we cannot change and courage to
change the things that we can change.

Still to this day, when we search physical beauty
standards on Google; we see big eyes, filled lips, We are not enough and there is nothing wrong
well-groomed skin and tiny waist. Even the news with that, there had never been. We need to feel
sites that we all know have to give tips about “how that we are not enough so much that we can feel
to be a beautiful woman”. I don’t find it right to enough once again.
only blame social media for the beauty standard
that has come into our lives with renaissance. Derin Akol
They all have become visible with the help of
social media. Media has convinced us that we
couldn’t be beautiful if we were not thin. Every
corner has filled up with dietitians whom have
told us what to eat and not to eat. They have
categorized food into two groups as “good” and
“bad”. We must have stayed away from the 3
white, they were unhealthy, they would make us
gain weight. It was like eating had become a sin.
Some people were implicitly saying that eating

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