Who says?

Who says you’re not perfect?

It's easy to get caught up in social media,

Scrolling day after day, 

Seeing models, influencers, and celebrities.

It harms you.

These models don’t look real.

They are straight out of a fairytale.

You look at all their perfection and all of your faults.

Social media changes people’s thoughts.

How they view their bodies,

The clothes they wear.

Nobody should affect how you act.

Your phone tells you, “you have to be skinny, 

but not too skinny,”

Don’t wear “too much” makeup; 

But the moment you go outside without it,

People ask if you’re sick.

From the moment you wake up,

And grab your phone

Finding yourself in another world,

And trying your hardest to fit into a mold.

You’re just not good enough. 

When you leave the house you're stuck with a mask.

A facade of yourself.

You can’t be yourself unless it is something that society approves of.

But people's opinions about you don’t matter.

The only thing that matters is how you view yourself.

When you look in the mirror,

You see a distorted version of yourself.

You look for your faults and imperfections.

Society,

changes everyone’s perspective

If only we look at what’s within instead of what’s on the outside.

Don’t look at yourself through someone else's eyes.

Society compares you to others.

They find an insecurity you never knew you had.

The words they say make you feel incomplete,

And they don’t care if it makes you sad. 

Don’t be who they say you are,

Be whoever you want to be.

Why do we have these standards?

It makes you feel almost like you’re drowning in the expectations.

Expected to be perfect, but never seeming to measure up.

You face everyone’s words of cruelty.

When there isn’t a scale to beauty.

The standards aren’t reasonable.

And they don’t focus on what’s important.

Beauty is within, and it starts with being comfortable in your own skin.

So who says -

Who says you’re not perfect?

Just because you don’t look like a model? 

It doesn't matter,

Because nobody's perfect

Only you can define yourself.