My airpods are missing. My room looks like a tornado hit it. I only got four hours of sleep last night. All of that is perfectly okay.
In the modern age of seemingly perfect Instagram models and “clean girl” aesthetics, it can be hard to let yourself accept your own imperfections.
Online accounts promote “How to look clean” and “10 habits to improve your life, trapping users into believing that they need to fix themselves. By getting caught up in the rat race of self-improvement, it’s easy to get stressed and to start believing that you are not good enough.
Social media posts present a charade of “perfection”, but they are just that a charade. Internet feeds are curated in order to make people appear perfect, not realistic. This facade can become problematic. When you forget the fakeness of everyone’s perceived perfection, you get lost in your flaws.
But you are not alone.
Everyone is messy.
Everyone is flawed in their own way.
You are not a robot.
Nobody lives a perfect life and everyone has personal struggles to overcome. Everyone has personal challenges. Nobody is immune to imperfection.
The need to achieve perfection makes us hide our faults and we pretend that everything is fine. Hiding our problems from everybody is unhealthy and just makes you feel lonely.
But, what would happen if instead of feeling ashamed, we embraced the mess?
Instead of desperately trying to prove to everybody that we are perfect, sometimes it’s healthy to accept a level of discomfort in our lives.
Nothing can ever be completely flawless, so it’s important to celebrate the everyday flaws of life rather than being self-conscious about them.
In fact, being vocal and proud about one’s own messiness can help us form deeper connections with others, helping us further cope with our imperfections.
By embracing our flaws, we find ways to love ourselves. By allowing ourselves to just be messy, instead of chasing unattainable perfection, we can find ways to love ourselves and achieve contentment with our personal lives.
