Middle School Girls: Selfies and Truth Is

Selfies

One thing that girls my age do that really gets to me is take loads of pictures of themselves. Facebook, Instargram, and Twitter are filled with hundreds of pictures of them standing their bathroom, holding their phone up to the mirror, and sticking out their butt. It's horrible.
     The worst part about it isn't even that the girls are looking fake and posting way too many pictures, but it's that the only reason they post these things are so that they can get the type of attention that they want. Which would be people commenting things like "You're sooooooo pretty!!" and "Ily sooo much bb<3". The reason these girls do this is obviously because they are insecure and they want people to notice them and tell them that they look good. It's not exactly a bad thing that girls in middle school want to have people telling them that they are "beautiful" and "perfect", it's just annoying how much these girls have to do it, and the way they do it. I honestly wish that we didn't have to worry about the way we look, that we didn't have to make ourselves feel better by posting a new picture of ourselves every 10 minutes.

Truth Is

The funny thing about Truth Is is that the title is completely ironic.
"Truth Is" is when someone (usually on Facebook) posts a status that says something along the lines of "Like my status for truth is". What they mean by this is "Like my status and I will post something on your timeline about how I feel about you, but I won't ACTUALLY tell the truth, because other people can see this post and I don't really want a reputation."
     There are some girls who "like" statuses that say "truth is" ALL THE TIME because they want people to say nice things about them, and they want to feel good about themselves (quite a lot like posting billions of selfies). So their timelines are full with people posting things about them that usually just consist of "Omg you are so gorgeous and we never hang out but we should talk more." These things are completely pointless, because those two people will probably never converse in real life, and they probably actually hate eachother.

It's Not That Easy

It's Not That Easy
Today I was walking on Bowdoin campus with my friends, when I came across a blackboard standing by the art building. In white chalk, it read "Before I Die..". People had written things underneath it, like "I want to pee on the Statue of Liberty" and "I want to meet my sister in real life". One person had written "Not be fat." Obviously, that's what I was going to write, so I was happy that someone else had thought the same thing and I wasn't alone in feeling like that.
I sat on the ground with my friends, and we took out some chalk. We drew for a little while, until a few college girls walked up and started inspecting the board. I heard one of them reading the comment about wanting not to be fat before they die. "Get over yourself!!" She exclaimed. "Love your f**king body!!"
That really affected me in a lot of ways. For one, that college girl had enough confidence that she apparently didn't worry about her weight and how her body looked. That suprised me, to think that some people don't think about stuff like that. But her comment also bothered me. Get over yourself? Heck, I'm trying! It's not like I try to spend every waking minute thinking about how I look and how much I weigh! I can't just say "Franny, stop thinking about your body" and I suddenly will stop.
It's not that easy.