I don't get why girls are living a life where they have to meet these "standards" to be considered "beautiful" or "perfect"

It's not just girls but guys too and I dont get it. What kind of society sets rules and expectations that are unrealistic?

Well, coming from me, and I've had, and still have, my fair share of insecurities and past experience with self-harm, I thought that I had to fit this rigid box and I am suppose to act accordingly to everyone's expectations. I put myself in the worst situations that do some unreal damage to my mind and body. After so long in doing this, I snapped. More like something in my mind clicked and I started to question everything. What clicked in my head was.

Why am I acting for these people?

Why can't I be me? More importantly who am I?

Why do I put myself through so much pain just to please others, just so I can be seen as "normal"?

I still dont have concrete answers for the many questions that popped in my head. I don't think I ever will considering society changes without me. Without me meaning that I don't consider myself part of socirty anymore. Yes, I do fall into line with a somethings but because I feel like I want to. But when it comes to self-image, self-expressiom, self-confidence and anything else that has to do with the individual, I go by my own rules, ways and styles.

Why do I write all this out? To provoke people. To poke at them. To stir up a new idea. To make people aware of what's going on in the world.

This being said I have a few things to say to those teens, kids, and adults that think that they have to fit an image:

Don't. Do what you want to do. Be who you want to be. Don't feel pressured into self-harming just to fit that box.