Passing Judgement

Mar 28, 2008 - 15:06 PM PST

Everyday we judge the individuals around us. Whether it's because of what they're wearing, how they did their hair or even their entire package, we judge them. I'm not the skinniest girl around town and I'm not the heaviest but I'm still someone who gets judged on a daily basis. Who said that how I look determines the person that I am, that my clothes and style or my weight makes my opinions and ideas less than someone else's. I walk around campus and its sad how with all of the knowledge we have, our society still hands us this model of who we should be and what we should look like. It's seen in magazines and on television and in the movies and we look at that and try to fit ourselves in. I'm not gonna lie, I feel like I might be happier if I lost ten or twenty pounds but I should be happy the way I am. I am a good person who does good things and I don't think that people shouldn't like me because of how I look; it's just not fair. But then again my father has always told me that "life is inherently unfair" and so then I feel like I should just keep going and not care about it but I do. If someone doesn't like me i want it to be because of the things I say and the ideas I possess and even then, I'm friends with so many people who don't share my ideas and passions and that's alright. I understand that we don't live in a perfect world, in fact we live in a world that's far from perfect but I just wish that we lived in a world without judgement and hatred of people who don't look and think like us. I understand that not everyone is going to like me and I'm okay with that; that's a fact that I have come to terms with. I just wish that our society would let us be who we are and wouldn't attempt to morph us into the model they think we should be.