I am surrounded
By people who
Constantly feel the need to change
They are never happy or confident about how they look
They were fine, though
They were fine before society tried to pull them under
Since when was being underweight
considered beautiful or fit
Since when did starving themselves
depriving them of a necessity for life
seem necessary
When did they ever say that they weren’t happy with how they looked?
When did they ever think that they needed to be skinny
skinnier
the skinniest
Maybe society wanted everyone
to be thin
to be considered perfect
Maybe society wanted everyone
to believe
that looks are the only thing that matter
Maybe society wanted to define beauty
and perfection
as skinny
But
everyone was fine
until society
raised the expectations
too high
for anyone to reach in a healthy way
too high
to let them believe
they were fine the way they were
too high to let them
feel beautiful
feel perfect
feel happy again