YOU are an achievement

There's so much these days that demands people to fit a certain kind of 'ideal' and to be a person who they may not necessarily be. Think about the media and how it influences young girls to feel they have to be a thin, beautiful woman when they grow up. They feel they have to look certain ways and so many people are left feeling bad about the person they are born as and actually are. Take for instance a certain characteristic or preference. You like movies, I've never heard of half of the ones you mention. You like brussell sprouts and I think they're a vegetable from hell. That kind of thing. I know it seems trivial, so let's take it up a notch.

You're someone who's not necessarily academic. You'd rather paint, or do something creative than so a science. Perhaps you're not in to that either. Perhaps you're not the best person in school. Maybe you didn't get the grades needed to go on to college or sixth form. Perhaps your best friend did. Maybe this friend of yours has gone on to take maths and science at A level, or in university, and you didn't. Imagine you watch this friend excel in what they do while you're still finding it hard to succeed in what you're good at. Sometimes that kind of thing can make a person feel badly about who they are and their skills. To watch other people do things you only wish you were good at can hurt. A lot. But it's not a bad thing.

I believe every person has something they're good at. It could be that you're good with hair or make up. So what if you're best friend wants to be a scientist? Just because you're not cut out for that doesn't mean that you don't have every right to be successful at what you are good at. See, one thing about humans is that individual differences exist on grand scales and no two people are exactly the same. Even identical twins will have their different personalities. They're two different people, after all!

So you're not the best person at sport. So you can't draw. So you're not good at maths or science. What I'm trying to get at is that it doesn't matter. You are you, and it doesn't matter how academic or professional your talent it. It's yours. You have a right to build on it and become something amazing. You are not the same as the model you see on the front of a magazine. You are not this strong, built up body builder who's advertising weights or a work out scheme. You are YOU. You're unique. You're beautiful, and you're just you.

Being you is quite honestly the most amazing achievement you can every achieve.

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." 

- Ralph Waldo Emerson