Lately many things have bothered me, but what I am writing about today has especially bothered me. Many of my friends put themselves down, talk about how they wish they looked like a famous person, and how they don’t love themselves.

This bothers me because I hear too often about how they don’t like themselves. I feel like people should always appreciate themselves. Too many of us girls talk about how we could get a nose job or get weaves just like Mariah Carey or Beyonce. Many girls say this because that’s what’s put out into the world.

Our everyday singers, actresses and models have long weaves. Miley Cyrus, Beyonce, Naomi Campbell, Taylor Swift and Nicki Minaj are who we look at and say “I wanna look like her”. My mother told me that girls used to think about the good they could do for the community, not how “good” they should look, but this was long before videos.

Real beauty is what makes a person. Kindness, friendship, hard work, passion and faith is what makes everyone have real beauty. If you have faith in yourself everyone will have faith in you. Kindness is the key to friendship. Hard work is what you need to do anything. Anybody who wants to be a painter, teacher, veterinarian or poet, has to work hard and have passion. Passion is what makes you to be a better person. A better person is a more beautiful person.