End Beauty Standards

Most of the time when I ask people, “What do you consider beautiful?” they would reply “oh yung maputi, yung payat, tas yung may thigh gap” and a bunch of other descriptions pertaining to the physical appearance of a person. Thin with thigh gaps, and fair skin complexion are just part of the beauty standards that our society has to deal with today and it doesn’t even matter which gender you have, man or woman, you would still be imposed with specific beauty standards, and, for me, this has to end. Why? Because a lot of people are experiencing pain and are suffering just because of those beauty standards that we have imposed upon ourselves and in this quest to be considered beautiful, some people wind up knocking at the doors of plastic surgeons, they end up vomiting away the food that they just ate, and at extreme cases, some even consider killing themselves because of the torture that they receive just because they’re not “pretty enough” or “thin enough”.

So let me ask you, must this continue to go on? Must we really impose ourselves with such impossible to meet beauty standards or maybe just maybe we can settle down and realize that true beauty is within and that there is no reason to hate and judge someone just because he or she looks different. Stop the beauty standards and just start the