Love Yourself

People will criticize you. We’ve all experienced it. It’s just a part of being human and living in this world. But you can’t let it get to you. You have to stick to the person you know you are and what you believe in. When people judge you, it’s usually because of an issue within themselves; they need to feel better about their own imperfections by pointing out yours. Let’s face it, everybody has them; we are human and we make mistakes and we aren’t perfect so judging just masks your own imperfections. It is important that we know that what others say does not define who we are. Only we can decide who we are. The worst punishment in life is having to doubt yourself or feeling that you just aren’t good enough. Nobody deserves to feel like they aren’t good enough for somebody else. You don’t need to seek the validation of others; it honestly doesn’t even matter what others think because only you can really know yourself in ways others cannot. It’s not easy either way but the world can be a harsh place with even harsher inhabitants and if you let the world define you, you...

People not property

School is over and summer is rolling in so it’s time to make some fun plans. This summer I am going to Mombasa, Kenya with a group of teens my age from all over the world to experience firsthand the developing world’s issues and to create solutions for the problems that exist there. One of the main problems that has improved only slightly in the past few decades and is quite overlooked is the treatment of women in the third world. This is a quite overlooked topic because it is seemingly “fixed” in America but even this statement that we have accepted as fact is an altered reality. We are all oblivious to the true facts; even I didn’t realize the level of discrimination there was toward women until recently. This is why we must educate ourselves instead of accepting what others say as fact. 50 million girls and women in India alone have been murdered because of the huge and growing discrimination in the area. This was made clear to me through the documentary Petals in the Dust and then again during the 2016 Global Issues Summit that we have been overlooking the measure of female discrimination there actually...

June 2016
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