I'm starting a series titled "The Struggle Is Real". I'll be writing about the different struggles we as teenage girls go through. Some of the things I'll write about I've already written about, so I'll just re-write them differently.
As we go throughout our daily lives, we're bombarded with images of "perfect women". Our culture is telling us what we have to look like, how we have to dress, and how we have to act. And if we don't measure up to their standards then we're worthless. But how exactly do we know if we measure up? Hollywood has provided us with the answer. The golden ratio is a number (1.62 to be exact) which a certain group claim can be used to measure beauty. This number is used to measure everything from how far apart your eyes are, to how long your head is, to how much space you have between your chin and lips. If you measure really well (basically perfect according to this group), your numbers might hit 10.0. Then you can relax, with the assurance of knowing that you are beautiful. But what if you don't have the "right" numbers? Does that mean you're not pretty? Not at all. The golden ratio is only one way that people determine beauty. Many different people determine beauty in many different ways. There's not a one-size-fits-all mold to what a beautiful woman looks like. God created every woman to look different. He created some with brown eyes, some with green. Some with blonde hair, some with black. Some with white skin, some with brown. Some women are skinnier than others. But just because you look different than the women around you that others are defining as pretty doesn't mean that you're any less beautiful than them. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. One person might think someone is pretty while another person thinks they're not. But what people don't realize is that every single person is beautiful. Everyone is beautiful in their own way. The Bible tells us that God created man and woman in His own image and that it was good. It says that we are all fearfully and wonderfully made. Just because you don't look like the airbrushed supermodels doesn't mean you're not pretty.
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