Youth

I have been thinking and observing people around me, and I've noticed a few things.  I have noticed young girls obsessed with how they look and with making sure they are doing things to please others.  Thinking back to my youth I remember at a very young age being ridiculed for how I looked or if I wasn't doing something that was pleasing or an act of doing for others.  These messages came from everywhere it seems in my memory that these messages were all around me.  I can only image how a young girl is bombarded by this in this day and age with so much more media than I had as a young girl.  So I think and this is a safe bet that this is true that a womens or my need to define myself by something other than who I was as a person began at a very young age.  After all it was hammered into my head that a womens purpose is to care for and that your nothing unless you are doing.  So I think this topic needs more exploration, I think I will look at some studies and give ya all some concrete information on this thought of mine.  I have in the past looked into similar topics in some college and doctorate classes so I know there are studies out there but it might be interesting to have some facts to back up this thought.

Don't forget to look for the polls at the bottom of my page, I will try and put up a new poll weekly, the polls are for fun im not doing anything with them except perhaps putting the results into a post to let you all know the outcome.  Also look for a new page that will include activities that we can do to learn to love ourselves.  Of course doing something is engaging in something but I hope to make the activities such that they explore myself/you.  No worries most activities will be easy(FYI as I have already said I love art and creativity so im sure that alot of my activities will be a tad artistic)and they won't be anything super clinical.  I plan on making it fun but I want to learn.


Cheers Have a Wonderful day