Our bodies change... and that's okay
Our screens have somehow led us to think that we are meant to retain a body that is distant from our age and development. You don’t need to change your body further; you just need to accept it.
Life has changed {and I have shocked absolutely no one with my life-changing realization}, and our lifestyles have followed suit. We no longer wake up on Saturdays to treasure that long-awaited time in front of the television as we eat our cereal or toast and watch that one show that replays at 9am.
We never leave our screens now, and so we are constantly fed ads, which are more and more masked to seem organic and not commercial. In that realm we find bodies. Perfect bodies. Always accompanied by their hideous cousin, Impossible-To-Reach-Standards. And so we find ourselves at this crux, fed these immense pressures of how we should look as we navigate growing up and facing difficulty & joy.
How is it that we are expected to remain the same body-wise when the rest of our being has moved on into adulthood? How are we meant to remain mark-less, unstained, when there is so much we have gone through? We need those stripes that serve as a testament of how we have changed and developed; they’re inevitable.
Enter, Lucy. A breath of fresh air in this increasingly toxic, pristine environment. Let us now delve deeper into our bodies changing. No, no, not how to change your body, but what to remember when it does. Not the same, Jane.