"They force us to walk with them in that cold even with New Year's hangover," laughed a man with a dog who I met in a park on 1st of January. Every day, we're forced to do many things. We act, we speak, we smile in some way and we don't often think if what forces us is our own need or just the influence of our surroundings.
A year and a half ago I started working our and I became interested in healthy eating. A year ago I started practising yoga. About 8 months ago I became a vegetarian. It was a spontaneous decision and I was doing it just for myself. However I keep seeing people saying that healthy lifestyle, yoga and vegetariasm are just "trends". That it's just a fashion and that I should give up on it.
Every human has innate need to be accepted and to belong somewhere. TV advertisement, movies, magazines and people around us are creating making assumptions that only if we look and smile and act in a specific way, we will be accepted. In fact we are just going to be part of óne herd. And another herd will be standing nearby, saying that we're stupid, ugly, not good enough ... No matter what you do, for some people you are always going to be too skinny or too fat. Too smart or too stupid. Too shy or too boastful.
The pressure from society is so strong. That's why so many girls suffer from eating dissorders, eat just few salad leaves a day and tell their friends that they eat pizza and fries every day. Slim girls with tons of makeup and expensive branded clothing post quotes that "the appearance doesn't matter" on social media. We all feel like we must be perfect and ideally it should look like we haven't done anything to achieve that. But what is perfection? Ask ten people to describe a perfect person. Do you think they will say the same things? I don't think so. We all have some ideals in our head. What one person sees as beauty, the other person considers as ugly. That's totally fine. The problem is that we force other people to reach our idea of perfection.
I wish you to have perfectly unperfect year during which you'll do and experience things which will make sense to you :)
A year and a half ago I started working our and I became interested in healthy eating. A year ago I started practising yoga. About 8 months ago I became a vegetarian. It was a spontaneous decision and I was doing it just for myself. However I keep seeing people saying that healthy lifestyle, yoga and vegetariasm are just "trends". That it's just a fashion and that I should give up on it.
Every human has innate need to be accepted and to belong somewhere. TV advertisement, movies, magazines and people around us are creating making assumptions that only if we look and smile and act in a specific way, we will be accepted. In fact we are just going to be part of óne herd. And another herd will be standing nearby, saying that we're stupid, ugly, not good enough ... No matter what you do, for some people you are always going to be too skinny or too fat. Too smart or too stupid. Too shy or too boastful.
The pressure from society is so strong. That's why so many girls suffer from eating dissorders, eat just few salad leaves a day and tell their friends that they eat pizza and fries every day. Slim girls with tons of makeup and expensive branded clothing post quotes that "the appearance doesn't matter" on social media. We all feel like we must be perfect and ideally it should look like we haven't done anything to achieve that. But what is perfection? Ask ten people to describe a perfect person. Do you think they will say the same things? I don't think so. We all have some ideals in our head. What one person sees as beauty, the other person considers as ugly. That's totally fine. The problem is that we force other people to reach our idea of perfection.
I wish you to have perfectly unperfect year during which you'll do and experience things which will make sense to you :)
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