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"They don’t let us know that we are beautiful in our own way..."
traits. His friends have just asked him what he likes in girls. I am disgusted by what I hear. He’s one of Them. They, the girls that think they’re so cool, the media, the internet, they have taken him into their lies of false beauty and acceptance. I feel heartbroken at another helpless being falling into their trap of what They consider perfection.
They don’t let us know that we are beautiful in our own ways; they make us feel like we’re not worth anything unless we can replicate them.
What he says next will never leave me.
He says, “I hate girls like that. They are so puffed up and vain. They disgust me. I like girls with high moral values, a girl that’s not afraid to stand up for what she believes in. She won’t be afraid to be herself. She’s smart and respects herself for what she knows. Someone who doesn’t want to be popular in the eyes of her classmates, but a girl that loves herself just the way she is. I want someone who has more to her then what you can see, a girl that leaves me space to wonder.”
Before this point, I had yet to hear anyone to actually speak those words out loud, and I love him for it, for not being one of Them. I’m never going to change for Them, not now not ever.
Some may call me a nerd, crazy, or abnormal, but this is what I’ll tell them:
“I’m smart, confident, original, and beautiful. I’m a young teenage girl who is tired of listening to your insults. I’m not going to just sit around and let you tell me to change who I am. You might call me an outcast. You can tell me I don’t belong, but I know who I am and I will never change!”