Black as a perfect skin

Hello everyone! Today's topic is about "trends" in today's society. 

How many of us follow trends? How many of us are influenced by these "trends"? 

Most of the time, we follow trends because it's easy to follow than lead. Also because it's considered cool or nice! 

Some trends are nice, depending on the reason behind it. For example: The "ice bucket challenge" which is geared to help to save lives. However, others just decided to do it simply because celebrities and their friends were doing it, without actually finding out what it was really about. That's when following trends with no reason becomes bad. 

According to a dictionary's definition,

"A trend is what's hip or popular at a certain point in time. While a trend usually refers to a certain style in fashion or entertainment".

According to my dictionary, this is what trend means. In my opinion, it's an excuse to not be creative. The following are a list of popular trends and notions we succumb to without questioning them:

* Men are all the same.

* Slim is beautiful 

* Why get married when you can date forever

* If you don't dress sex than you are not cool

* Twerking/ let's all be Miley Cyrus

* Smoking weed is totally normal, after all Rihanna does it too

* Sending nude pictures 

* Yolo (You Only Live Once): so go wild and crazy

* Who am I to be successful 

* I am a bad b****

* Sex is totally normal

There are so many trends we follow that we don't realise how it has a negative influence on our lives. It makes us fail to see who we really are. Girls, you want your boyfriend to treat you as a prince but you call yourself bad b***, really? You say men are all the same that's why you accept them to cheat on you and you believe that you can't find a better man. You want to lose weight because it is said that being skinny is what's beautiful, and etc. 

I say, start by having a relationship with yourself. Know who you are. Define what is beautiful not because others say it is but because you know it's beautiful. Be the one that leads and set an example.

I am not asking you to be perfect but to BE A BETTER YOU!