Perfection

Didn't you realise that perfection does not exist sweetheart?

That "perfection" you so incessantly search for is different
to each invidivual and not what the world wishes to see.
stop flicking through your glossy trashy magazines and aspiring
to be each skinny size 0 woman that you see on every other page.

You can only see their body, you're not privvy to their
personal life. Do you really think they are truly happy?
That they have everything they wish for, that they have
completed everything they set out to do?

Didn't you realize, darling, that 99.9% of these pictures
are airbrushed in order to garner more viewers?
Aimed at the young and impressionable, those that are
easy to be led, the ones hapy to follow and comform
to what soceity deems acceptable?

You're not unintelligent, open your eyes darling
and look around you. We're all different,
we all have flaws about us.
But, remember, we also all have our own
positive personality traits and habits.

The ones that matter, they don't care if you're a size zero
or a size 26. Haven't you realized this yet?
Stop changing yourself for others and start
changing yourself for you.

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*Written for Colm's contest