Dear Anonymous,

I woke up this morning and grabbed my phone and opened Instagram just as I do every morning. This morning was different though, when I opened up Instagram the first thing that popped up was this famous absolutely stunning girl who seemed so confident in herself. I scrolled down and it was like I was looking at the same image as the one above but it was a different girl this time but she was just as confident as the girl before. I kept scrolling and all of these perfect people were there as if they were trying to tell me that, that is what I should look like. I should be tall and skinny with long hair and beautiful eyes. Yet I am none of those things. All of these girls could walk into a room and everyone would stare because they are so perfect but when I would walk into a room it is like I am just another person. I decided to put down my phone and get ready for my day but as I sat down in my chair looking into my mirror I couldn’t help but see every single flaw I had. My body filled with anger and I hit my mirror and it shattered all across my floor. As I went to clean up all of the pieces of glass I saw my reflection in every little broken piece of mirror. I saw the tears running down my face because all I saw in the reflection was my short hair that was half straight and half curly, the way my face looked so plane without makeup, the way my stomach wasn’t as flat as all the girls on instagram and of course my thighs that were bigger than I wanted them to be, but so was the rest of me.

When she walked over to sit down in front of me and look at her reflection I saw this look in her eyes as if she didn’t want to look into me because she was scared of what she might see. The next thing I knew I was scattered all across her floor. As she went to pick of the little pieces of me I felt the tears hit some of me and the rest of me saw the tears falling from her face. It was so unfair the way that she looked at herself as if she wasn’t good enough because it was exactly the opposite. When she walks into a room everyone stares because you can’t help but look at her because she has this shine that nobody else has but she just sees herself as another person in a room full of people. It’s so unfair that this is the way she sees herself and it is all because of social media, its all because she sees these “perfect” people on instagram, its all because she thinks that she needs to look like these girls to be beautiful when in reality all of her “flaws” are what make her stand out in the crowd and make her the beautiful girl that she is.