When I see "the perfect girl" on a cover of Fitness magazine, jealousy and guilt begin to boil in me. By "perfect" I mean, large breasts, shiny thick hair, a golden tan, beautiful smile, and shapely thighs. Thoughts like "I too want to weigh ninety pounds" or "I should have never chomped down those M&MS," begin to run through my mind. It seems to me that the magazine is society telling me that life would be perfect if I was thin. I will be beautiful, healthy, accepted and happy if I resembled the image of "the perfect girl." Unfortunately nobody is, or will ever be perfect and publications like Fitness should stop trying to make perfection appear achievable.
I have tried so many diets from the magazine that said they would help me achieve perfection. Sadly none of them have worked for me. My most disgusting one ever was low-fat tasteless yogurts for breakfast, lean cuisines for lunch, and goat cheese turkey burgers for dinner. It only lasted four days. I began to feel disappointed in myself for not pulling off my diets, but every time I went on one, forbidden cravings like chocolate and cheesecake came to me. That was when I turned to HYDROXYCUT, a weight loss supplement that I learned about from Fitness. I knew that weight loss supplements were against my better judgements, but I was desperate. I wanted to be perfect and needed to look like the girl on the cover to feel good about myself.
After about three weeks of dieting and taking weight loss supplements, I began to realize that my health was weakening and my self esteem was dropping instead of rising. I began to think that the more weight I lose the closer to perfection I would get. Every time I looked at the magazine, the girls in it would appear thinner, so my goal of losing ten pounds went up to twenty. I began to exercise and diet even more, which accomplished a lot, but my self image kept on decreasing.
My world began to revolve around Fitness magazine.
"Perfection," a life long unattainable struggle sought after by the world's majority. My own life was greatly affected by that strive to reach the ever so non-existent state of what I considered to be "perfect." All my life I have struggled with my need for perfection. I have always found it necessa...
The Cost of Perfection Thin waists, perfect noses, huge breasts. You name a body part, they can fake it. I see it on television, in the movies, at the mall. I hear about buddy deals and the doctors office and easy payment plans. America is paying millions of dollars to "fix" themselves. Th...
The Lost Perfection I had entered the third grade in fall 1992. ... So, there must be a spiritual side to our identities to help us achieve the infinite good; the perfection. ... And since we all strive for our perfection and complete happiness of our lives as referred by Blaise Pascal, " All men seek happiness, there are no exceptions," then the meaning of our lives is Saintity. ... He is the One that gives us all these gifts; this shows us that we could never achieve perfection or complete happiness by these things since we owe to him all these gifts. ...
Rina Angela Corpus talks about the perfectionism that revolves around ballerinas portrayed in Darren Aronofsky's "Black Swan". ... As a result of this ballet system, female dancers are driven to become tenacious competitors and are forced to live absurd lives filled with self-harm and a number of different psychological disorders like anorexia and bulimia in the pursuit for perfection. The review also brings to life the sad truth about how utterly painful it is to be an artistic dancer from the clothes and shoes they wear to the victimization they face from their choreographers and their ...
This constant struggle is why certain characters in Franz Kafka's "The Metamorphosis-, John Updike's Gertrude and Claudius, and Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman- rely on the untouchable perfection of Platonism as a place to direct their faith. ... Therefore, they put faith into the "greater perfection of things."" ... At this stage each of the prisoners of life finally begin to face the real truth and give up on the universal truth of Platonism, as the perfection they desired never came to surface. ...
Beck's story "Struggling for Perfection" displayed the stress put on women to look a certain way because of how the media portrays women. ... Based off of the media images, "The depiction of women by the fashion industry, they had been convinced that the only way to attain love, respect, and personal fulfillment was through a relentless pursuit of physical perfection" (Beck 809). ...
