Jun 12, 2020
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i keep waking up before my alarm so my phone likes to ask if i want to disable it since i'm already on my phone but out of respect for lady gaga and artpop i'll just let it go off
Hot-take here:
Why is it not socially acceptable to just eat a condiment??
Like I only eat carrots cause I want ranch. And ketchup is perfectly fine on its own.
not to be dramatic but i dread femininity
Olivia Vella recited a powerful poem about insecurities for her seventh grade writing class. Full story: http://abc7.la/2rkd5aC Produced by LA Blake
Why am I not good enough?- By Olivia Vella
1. Take a shower, you don’t want to smell.
2. Pick out an outfit that will fit in with the latest trends, and won’t make you the laughing stock of the school, more than you already are.
3. Put on some makeup so you can actually show your face in public and be a little bit pretty...
You can’t even recognise yourself, and your face tingles with an unbelievable itch you can’t satisfy otherwise you’ll have ruined the hours of the meticulous paint you apply to your hideous face...
4. Don’t forget to style your hair in elegant curls, you can’t let everyone at school see how your hair frizzes up like an electrocuted monkey, naturally.
5. Shove your fat feet into those toe pinching, blood blistering Converse that everyone at school is wearing, and you cannot be the odd one out!
As you gaze into the bathroom mirror, you see a stranger that has somehow stolen your reflection and has replaced it with a completely different girl. Every single part of your outfit is uncomfortable, but even though you spend hours trying to look pretty. You will never be as good as those other girls at school. You are actually holding back a few tears but you feel as if you are holding back a tsunami of emotion! You can’t let anyone know how you feel, otherwise, they will never respect you the way they used to. Or did they ever?
Why am I not good enough?
Beauty is pain...
6. Get off the bus.
7. Find a group of people who you can walk to class with because heaven knows you can’t just walk alone, but you don’t even like these people.
They cuss and make dirty jokes a lot, and they laugh and make fun of you. You know you shouldn’t hang out with them, but, hey, they are the popular kids, and you just want people to like you like they like them. You are in the stocks as people throw judging tomatoes and hating heads of lettuce at your insecure little head. You cannot stand up for yourself because you are alone, trapped and defenceless, and you cannot stand up for yourself because the popular kids are like the royalty of the school and apparently what they say and do goes. You take each comment, each judgement, each opinion, each strange look, each remark, each criticism, each review, each report, each assessment and with it your self-esteem plummets! Like a sinking ship. Down, down, down into the dark and dreary depths below. You look at all the other girls your mind racing a mile a minute, I wish I had her eyes, I wish I had her hair, I wish I was as skinny as her, I wish I had her perfectly straight white teeth, I wish that I had her social confidence, I wish as many boys liked me as they liked her...
Why am I not good enough?
Life isn’t fair...
8. Get your work done, the only part of your life that seems solvable is the actual schoolwork. You take pride in your work because it is possibly the only thing special about you. You do it to see the radiant smiles on your teacher's faces as they applaud your work, their joyful praise is the gentle rain that brings forth a magnificent rainbow, the radiant sunshine that brings forth fields of sweet daisies. One of the only things that brings you happiness, but it is not popular to be smart in fact you’re seen as a nerd, too smart, human calculator, brainiac, geek, teacher’s pet, suck up whatever wonderful name you can think of. Your peer's jealousy is a pollution that prevents a rainbow, the bulldozer that ploughs through the fields of sweet, golden daisies, the intangible objects that crushes your happiness like a bug. A’s are getting you nothing but torment...
Why am I not good enough?!
Just get over it...
9. It’s the end of the day, get ready for bed.
10. Undress, get your pyjamas on. Wow, did I get fatter today?!
11. Undo your hair, wow my hair looks like a mop...
12. Wash off all of your makeup, I can’t even look at myself...
This is my life every day, I can’t control it. I’ve been told I can’t compare apples and oranges, I’ve been told I’m distorted, I’ve been told I have to be grateful for who I am. But going through your middle school years you are on your own journey to find yourself on a small jet, and sometimes you cannot control what happens to you. The turbulence will throw you off course, but popular isn’t always a good thing. You tell yourself, I just want people to like me, I just want to be accepted! But skipping meals and marking up your risk isn’t going to fix that. You look at other girls wishing you were them, but other girls are looking at you wishing they were you. Society infers that girls have to have skinny waists, tanned skin, long silky hair, perfectly straight teeth, big butts and etc. Society infers girls have to wear tons of makeup to be pretty. Society infers girls have to wear skanky clothing and do innapropiate things with boys to be happy and considered cool. But society is wrong! You are loved, you are precious, you are beautiful, you are talented, you are capable, you are deserving of respect, you can eat that meal.
You are one in seven billion.
And most of all...
You are good enough...
Why am I not good enough? By Olivia Vella
Some people out there probably need this a lot, please watch this is very important
Don't let society change who you are meant to be, stay strong, you are good enough💖
Hey has anyone noticed that, if you look up in google “school makes me feel”, google will complete it with “sad, sick, angry, suicidal,....” and so on, and yet “there is nothing wrong with our school system, that is just kids being over dramatic”, but I thought google completed the sentence with things that are typed A LOT OF TIMES. .....oh yea sure there is nothing wrong with our school system...nope.
Dear Society
breasts are not meant for pleasing men. they are meant for feeding babies, which is not a ‘dirty’ thing to do in public btw.