The Perfect Image

Once upon a time, long and far ago, perhaps even back to the time of Jesus, there must not have been ideal social images than women were forced to fit. However in today’s modern day and age, everyone is physically expected to fit into our perception of beauty in order to feel liked by others for who they are. For example as portrayed even by something as simple as a toy doll that girls grow up with, the concept that they must be long legged, sleek, or have a “Thirty-nine-inch bust and a twenty-three-inch waist,” are simple norms that are faced in growing up in today’s day and age. This leads to much insecurity within ourselves as we struggle to inch closer to images that are created through shaping plastic, or extensive computer editing. Though irrational, the train of thought is very simple. This is how people on magazines look; this is how I should look. This train of thought is what sets today’s standards as high as they are, and what keeps them always just one step above our reach. Even when considering standards set for males, it is still hard to expect everyone to consist of: A chiseled face, sharp jawbone, abs, and so on. Overall today’s beauty standards are as unreachable as pink elephants, and no matter how much we try to chase the perfect image, or how much of ourselves we sacrifice for it in the end it will always be just another step away from us.