Love is louder than the pressure to be perfect
In our day and age, the pressures that come along with being a teenage girl or maturing adult are from all possibly imaginable angles; as there’s a lot of pop culture influences such as fashion, music, having the ideal body and the one a lot of people deny, though I have come to realize it as the ultimate pressure. It may be subconscious or maybe something you’ve thought of as stupid or even six feet below the barrel; but however you reason with it, being an IT girl, fitting in or finding a box to tick in on the classification section set by society to create some sort of false anarchy does indeed matter. Don’t get me wrong, not to validate your existence of course, but in those few years of your life when you’re trying to find yourself, you tend to lean on false tags to somehow give you somewhat direction in learning more about being you.
Love is Louder Than the Pressure To Be perfect is a new movement where international celebrities have taken it upon themselves in addressing the pressures that teenage and college-age girls feel to be in everything they do. Singer-actress Demi Lovato partnered up with The Jed Foundation and Seventeen magazine to push this new movement which was originally started by Brittany Snow and Sophia Bush. This campaign has been supported by the likes of Victoria Justice, Camilla Belle, AnnaSophia Robb, Ke$ha, Savvy and Mandy, Anna Kendrick and Caroline Sunshine, Miley Cyrus, Ashley Argota and Zendaya.
Brittany Snow is an inspiration to a lot of girls dealing with the pressure to be perfect. She says that when she started the Love is Louder movement with The Jed Foundation in 2010, she had no idea that it would reach hundreds of thousands of people around the world. She mentions that she struggled a lot with self-image when she was a teenager and it inspires her to see Demi and so many others joining Love is Louder to support anyone who feels mistreated, misunderstood or alone. She states that helping other people is one of the ways that she deals with the pressures in her life.
Although this organization is half way across the world, I feel that it’s a really good way to help young girls out there figure themselves out without altering their life story to fit a specific scene for an ignorant audience. I for one completely understand as I don’t have an amazing figure or a flat stomach. I’m far from being considered a model, buuut I’m me. I eat food. I have curves. I have more fat than I should. I have scars because I have a history. Some people love me, some like me and some probably hate me. I have done good and I have done bad. I love my pj’s, I go without makeup (only on days when I’m late- which is possibly 4 out of 5 days) and sometimes I don’t get my hair done. I’m random and crazy and I don’t pretend to be someone I’m not. I am who I am and that’s that. People’s perceptions and opinions about me are none of my business…well, because I’m too busy being me to notice. And I’ve never been happier with the person that I am right now; so hang on to the roots of your frizzy hair and read between the lines of your cracked spectacles because like Dr. Seuss has been trying to drill into our heads… no one is better at being you than you.
