PRETTY HURTS

So Beyoncé said that pretty hurts, a song that dig deep into my soul and made me realize the pressure we all have, the pressure of being a girl in this world. I don´t intend to analyze every single word of this song, but the ones that hit me the most.

In the intro a man ask her "What is your aspiration in life?¨so she answers "To be happy" then she says that perfection is a disease of a nation but I think its a disease not only for a nation but for the whole world. We have all those models on instagram, having the perfect body, the perfect life, then we see insta stars; girls that gained a lot of followers, girls that are so pretty, with makeup routines, working out, traveling and a lot of selfies. And then you look at yourself and you compare to them because its not fair that you dont have their genetics but then you realize that some of these girls got lip injections, lashes extensions, a lot of makeup(because makeup creates miracles) some of them photoshops their pics or sometimes it´s truly just genetic and it´s okay. This is not about bashing girls for doing whatever they want with their bodies, we have to understand that if that´s what makes them feel good, gorgeous or sexier it´s okay, we have to let them be. The problem I´m talking about is when sometimes we acknowledge that even if it´s photoshopped, or the picture is taken in the right angle or if they have lashes extensions we keep thinking to ourselves "Why Im not like them?" We keep hating ourselves, we keep lowering ourselves down; even if we know ,we keep doing that.

Then she says "It´s the soul that needs surgery" and it makes sense, even if you learn to love yourself, healing your soul, filling it with love is really hard, when you have the TV, the social media, telling you different things everyday, creating beauty standards that are so hard to follow. "Blonder hair, flat chest TV says bigger is better South beach, sugar free Vogue says Thinner is better" so when you start to love yourself it gets harder and harder because you keep hearing and seeing these different beauty standards that affects you. That lowers your self esteem. So she says again "Is my soul that needs the surgery" because you understand that you are so filled with these ideas in your head, that you are so infected with them that sometimes yourself is the one that stops you from loving yourself. Because we let them in, because that´s propaganda, the subliminal messages do get to us even if we don´t want to believe. They get to us.

Finally she asks "Are you happy with yourself?" And everytime we listen to the song, we ask ourselves that, Am I really happy? Sometimes the answer is yes and sometimes the answer is no. Because it truly becames an aspiration, to be happy in this world. And I think it is okay, it is a hard battle to love yourself, but is really worth it. So yeah, pretty do hurts.