Identity Short Story
Dear Diary,
School today was the worst! I have never felt to alone before. I felt like I was the new girl in school, I was ignored in the morning and I also was ignored during recess and lunch. What had I done?
I am usually the popular girl in school. You know, the girl that everyone loved and the girl that everyone asked for advice from. But today it was different. Yes, I know it was risky to not wear make-up to school today, but something "hit" me and I made the decision to not touch my make-up. Everyone at school wore make-up, but who cares, I wanted to show everyone the real me.
Out of everyone in the whole school I would've thought that my bestest friend in the whole wide world, Tamara, would understand. But she didn't, she treated me just like everyone else, I was the "ugly" girl who had no make-up on.
I used to feel that by wearing make-up everyday I would feel on top of the world. I would have the flawless skin, the long eyelashes and the thick eyeliner. But yesterday I came home from school and I looked at myself in the mirror. I thought to myself, Why am I doing this? Why am I covering my whole face in some tanned coloured liquid? It is definitely a waste of money and I should just be able to embrace my freckly olive skin.
Wearing make-up is like having a mask over your face. You are not showing people the real you, so whats the point of living a life thats fake. Thats also what I realised yesterday.
Since everyone wore make up to school, everyone looked that same. The make-up restricted people on who they really were as a person. For example the girls who are sporty used to play sport all day everyday, but now the make-up is restricting them. They all think in their heads that if they wear make-up and play sport at the same time, the make-up will run down their faces because of the sweat and they wouldn't be like the rest of the girls. Yes, they may be different from the other girls, but that is what makes them, them.
I think that
School today was the worst! I have never felt to alone before. I felt like I was the new girl in school, I was ignored in the morning and I also was ignored during recess and lunch. What had I done?
I am usually the popular girl in school. You know, the girl that everyone loved and the girl that everyone asked for advice from. But today it was different. Yes, I know it was risky to not wear make-up to school today, but something "hit" me and I made the decision to not touch my make-up. Everyone at school wore make-up, but who cares, I wanted to show everyone the real me.
Out of everyone in the whole school I would've thought that my bestest friend in the whole wide world, Tamara, would understand. But she didn't, she treated me just like everyone else, I was the "ugly" girl who had no make-up on.
I used to feel that by wearing make-up everyday I would feel on top of the world. I would have the flawless skin, the long eyelashes and the thick eyeliner. But yesterday I came home from school and I looked at myself in the mirror. I thought to myself, Why am I doing this? Why am I covering my whole face in some tanned coloured liquid? It is definitely a waste of money and I should just be able to embrace my freckly olive skin.
Wearing make-up is like having a mask over your face. You are not showing people the real you, so whats the point of living a life thats fake. Thats also what I realised yesterday.
Since everyone wore make up to school, everyone looked that same. The make-up restricted people on who they really were as a person. For example the girls who are sporty used to play sport all day everyday, but now the make-up is restricting them. They all think in their heads that if they wear make-up and play sport at the same time, the make-up will run down their faces because of the sweat and they wouldn't be like the rest of the girls. Yes, they may be different from the other girls, but that is what makes them, them.
I think that