It is harder to grow up now. Of course we have all the new technology and a much safer and stable childhood, but what about the pressure that is on us. How we are going to do our make-up, which clothes we are going to wear, if we are going to be fat or thin and tall or short. The pressure is mostly coming from the media and Hollywood, the reason for that is because it is them who have affection on us. Young girls worldwide are reading celebrity-magazines with pictures of perfect styled celebrities who is size zero. It has an enormous affection on them, whether they want it or not. Although, you are taking the style in the magazine because you don’t want to be different or if you are doing the opposite because you want to stand out, it affects you.
It is not only affecting which style you have, or which music you are listening on but how you’re body looks. Even tough, you just toss the gossip-magazines because the actors/actress and singers in the pictures are too perfect and too skinny it affects you no matter what. And it is unbelievable many young girls and boys who have a problem with how they look because they get a feeling that says that nothing are ever good enough. They develop eating-disorders and very low self-esteem. So what do you think, is it too much pressure? What do you think have most affection on you?
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I don’t know if it is directly harder to grow up these days, but it is definitive not easy. I agree with you that it is more pressure on how we look and how we should live our lives. Back in the “old times” I believe the teenagers cared about different things than we do today. For them was probably how to earn money in the future a bigger deal than what they should wear the next day. And instead of getting low self-esteem because they didn’t look like Audrey Hepburn, they got down if their mother complained on them for doing to little in the house. Of course they cared about how them self and others looked, but not as much as we do today.
Like you said, media and Hollywood is mostly to blame. They are telling us how we should look and behave to be perfect and happy. Just like the famous people in Hollywood are depicted to be. With all the new technology and information we have today, the problem is getting bigger year by year. We get affected to think negative about ourselves, and to believe that we aren’t good enough. We get low self-esteem and think too much about our own body and what other thinks. The reason for that we think too much on those little things that don’t matter in the big world and the in the proper perspective, is maybe because we have too few other things to concern about, and too much time to think. This isn’t, of course, the case for everybody. For some it might be a big problem, and for others it isn’t.
I think it is too much pressure, and that we can blame media, but this is an issue we have to fight with ourselves on. It takes time to find out who you are, and to think you have to be perfect is a struggle inside of you that shouldn’t be there. We can’t be something that does not exist. I don’t know what have the most affection on me, and I like to think that I don’t get so affected; but to be honest I probably get affected by many things.
What should I wear, to be accepted? This question does a lot of teenagers ask them self. For a reason they have developed a system that was affected by the media, Hollywood, celebrities, etc.
They put a perspective on what the perfect human should look like. Because of so many teenagers trying to mimic this perfect human, it gives them issues as we know is very hard to handle. The reason for all this perfection is because they are trying to prevent feeling excluded and left outside by others.
The pressure on teenagers today is a bit horrifying. For girls you have these entire “perfect” woman’s on front covers on fashion magazines, commercials, music pictures etc. These women have no fat, perfect skin, perfect breasts, perfect mouth etc. And because you see these women all around on magazines boys are starting to think: “Now that is what a woman should look like!” and then all the girls think: “I do not have that flat stomach, I don’t have perfect skin”, etc. Then girls are starting to eat more low fat food, trying to dress nicer and trying to show the good side all the time.
For boys on the other hand there is a pressure on how you should look like too. When girls see a picture of a guy with six-pack, awesome hair and cool clothes they talk about that allot. Often so we boys can hear it. Then boys are thinking: “I don’t have a six-pack, I can’t afford those clothes! I don’t have the right hair type for that kind of awesome hair”. Most guys I know are working out for the result of training, not for better condition or strength, but to look better.
Primarily, I want to say thanks to the students that have made a comment to my post. It is nice to see your opinion, and I agree with the things that you guys have said! Such as that Nikolai said it is also a great pressure on boys on how the body should be. And things like a nice ass and “six-pack” usually comes as a matter of course. Can’t people understand that it is what’s inside that matter, and that you never should judge a book by its cover. Even though, the look is not everything, I would have been lying to myself if I said that it doesn’t matters. Of course I want boys that respect me for who I am, that have a sense of humour and that are honest, but a nice look wouldn’t killed anyone, would it? Finally, I want to encourage everyone that read this comment to remember that it is not only the appearance that matters, and that you never should be too critical when it comes to how people look, for it is usually a wonderful personality that are hidden inside.
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