Purple - for Eating Disorder Awareness
February 6th - 12th of this year (2011) was the week for Eating disorder awareness. Although this time is over, those who support the cause for prevention should still sport their purple ribbons!
This disease is life threatening but also life-changing so remember that people are going through this each and every single day - whether it's in your school, around your neighbourhood, in the mall or restaurant you enter for supper or at work. People suffer everywhere and most of the time we don't even realize it! So take action now, take the pledge to save a life!
Sincerely,
(writer)
Living in the Dark
Do you ever feel like you're in the dark, invisible, hidden away from the world?
Or what about seen by all but so unconfident in who you are as a person? That was me. Confidence might seem like such a simple word, but to attain it you'll realize that it isn't as simple as it sounds.
Many people each year are struggling with self-esteem. They are torn from the world in spurts of depression or feelings of not belonging. Teens are thrown into this egotistical world of mediocre articles in magazines. "I'm not pretty enough," will say one teenager, "look at his abs, I can't go to the beach without my shirt on since I don't look like him!" says another. Today's society bases itself on looks and looks alone. By pushing these teens to look like airbrushed celebrities is both cruel and unrealistic. Why are people so absorbed in these "one-look" statistics? Everyone is DIFFERENT. Everybody is UNIQUE. So why is there just ONE look?
You go down the street to the grocery store and see a variety of different looks. You take a trip to the mall and notice that the sizes don't fit most normal figures. Someone out there might fit into that "double zero," but on average? What is the average size today? Most people have curves and they should be able to embrace them.
This website is dedicated to helping people of all ages to love who they are, to love their body and to believe that being unique isn't a crime.
I hope that this site will inspire at least one person to believe such things because we are who we are and nobody can change that.
Love who you are, because unique is so much better then similarity!
Sincerely,
(writer)
(writer)
