It's time to break the mold

           "I'm not pretty enough." "I'm just plain old ugly." "I'm too fat." "I'm worthless." "No one likes me." "I wish i was like her." "No one even notices me."  "Why am I even here?" "No one would even care if I was gone."
I think it's right to say that most teen age girls living in this day and age have at one point felt this way. I think it is also right to say that many young Christian teen girls have even felt this way. I don't blame them for thinking those things. Society has decided that a being a size 0 yet also being well endowed at the same time (kind of impossible), having the perfect hairstyle and color (which changes every week!) and also keeping up with the latest fashion trends (walking around half naked) is absolute perfection. It doesn't matter if you are intelligent, if you are a people person,if you are just a really friendly girl that enjoys life, or if you are a size 6 with frizzy hair and you like to wear jeans and a t-shirt. In order to be perfect we all feel forced to be put into this mold.
     Most Teens generally do not like being told what they have to do and hate not being able to do what they want, when they want to do it. So why then are we forcing ourselves to be put into this mold? Why can't we all just do what we want and be who we want to be? O yeah that's right, society would not like that too much. You might actually get laughed at for being YOU. Wow that sounds like a group whose mold I'd like to join... NOT. Why is it so hard for us teens to see that society's mold offers absolutely NOTHING for us? Society says that if you join our mold, you will have great looks, great relationships and you'll always have a great time. Well let's just look at theses statistics for a minute. Suicide is the third leading cause of
death among adolescents and teenagers. 1 in every 5 teens have thoughts about suicide. Also, about 1 in 6 teens have already made plans for their own suicide. More than 1 in 12 teens have attempted suicide in the last year. So according to these statistics I'd say that fitting into the mold isn't really all it's cracked up to be. 
     So you're thinking "ok, maybe you're right.. society's mold kind of stinks and doesn't have much to offer, but what other choice do we have?" Thankfully,there is a MUCH better choice then having to fit into a mold with billions of other teens and basically becoming a robot that doesn't have a mind or emotions of it's own.
     That Choice is the choice to just be YOU.Sounds ridiculously simple.. That's probably because it is!!! YOU were created in the image of God(Genesis 1:27). YOU were created to stand out. YOU have a purpose for being on this earth(Isaiah 43:7). YOU are beautiful in God's eyes.(Song of Solomon 4:7) 
God offers you eternal life. He promises a life of trials but He also promises us that those trials will be nothing in comparison to the joys and blessings of Heaven. Why wouldn't you want to just be yourself and have the freedom to be who you are especially when it's so simple? 
    It comes down to two choices and The choice is yours. Are you going to go back to society's mold? Continue to Be offered wonderful promises that can never truly be fulfilled? Live your life never truly feeling satisfied? Or are you going to be YOU?.... a unique person who is beautiful in God's eyes. Some one who was put on this earth for a reason and one who was  bought and purchased by the blood of Christ.

"YOU were made to fill a purpose that only YOU could do, so there could never be a more beautiful YOU."-Johnny Diaz