It starts at home for sure but even good parents can have their kids lost to the wrong friend or crowd.
If people really cared about this shyt, not talking about people in the thread, but America at least, the glorification of women who are celebrities based on their looks not merit would not happen. Bravo would not exist on cable networks. Instagram would not be filled with pseudo-celebrities based on their looks. Unfortunately, we've been conditioned to see success as popularity, not merit or accomplishments. And thats what annoys me most, is that people who know better still brush that shyt off as "just entertainment." or it "not being that serious.". But it is that serious. Kids who aren't smart enough or confident enough to know what they see is not what actual reality is, can get lost in doing what the magazines, songs, TV tells them. Yes parents need to be the first line of defense and making sure kids don't get lost, but how come the responsibility cant be on society as a whole to help others too? I think people have really lost themselves in themselves and don't think they need to do anything to better the world around them. That the world see's through their perspective, through their past not taking into account how much this life varies for people no matter where they come from or what they look like.
Unfortunately, many young people get validation from others and if you aren't getting the validation others are getting, you question yourself and may try and become that to get that love and admiration you feel like you're not getting. Kids want to be adults so bad. They want to feel grown, like they are making their own decisions even though they don't have the knowledge, experience or means to actually make decisions that arent just going to matter in the short term. I think we really need to press how permanent decisions are and doing things out of youthful ignorance can't be an excuse.
It took me a long time to get out of the "woe is me" phase because I felt like being myself wasn't being respected or appreciated. I didn't try and become something else, I was lucky enough to find the confidence to love who I am and what I do and to surround myself with people who felt the same. Many people don't get the chance to find what truly makes them happy and are constantly searching for the next thing to grab someones attention to get that validation/confidence that they are living right. We don't push happiness and success in life with being happy with yourself and what you do, but how it compares to others. It's not healthy and you can see why people who don't have the shyt that so-called successes have, would do whatever it takes to look/live the part.
no, not really
