Breathe
By Laisha Wilkins
Image management -mainly through social networks- has overwhelmed us, jaded us with so much perfection that ends up falling into falsehood.
We see women and men with perfect hair, faces, complexions, bodies in eternal youth, always in paradisiacal places with their bags, tennis shoes, cars, watches, fashionable phones, talking with motivational phrases and showing a sphere of life idealized by the observer.
All this has created a social pressure that has exhausted the viewer. Burnout is felt because perhaps they have realized that the time they invest in their lives to obtain the money that it costs to live up to social needs is too high or they have probably understood that measuring themselves against or taking as an example such lives will keep them in depression because they will never reach the standards. The perfect formula for disappointment is idealization.
Users begin to perceive that the life they envy is from the camera to the network, and that they will never know what is behind it, what is the reality of those perfect couples or always happy personalities who have everything.
Most have created a character that shows no real weaknesses or conflicts. Most forget or hide their life story or their shortcomings. And they swarm all over the networks and media, but there is too much supply and it's joking around.
In a Mexico as politicized as never before, we constantly see profiles that present themselves as pristine beings, but installed with cynicism, in a double standard between their words and their deeds. Stiff officials who continue with the leisurely tones of the seventies and a robotic narrative as if they were talking to kindergarten children. Pointing out to us what is right and what is wrong, as if they were Saint Peter.
Bombardment and saturation force us to look for personal connection and we only connect when we are emotionally hooked and for that it is necessary to provoke.
To provoke hope in a Mexico so hurt, to move feelings, to stimulate dreams.
There is a need for authentic personalities, without a character. Capable of showing their weaknesses, their fears and doubts, their real feelings, of speaking without filters, without posturing. Ordinary people like the audience, who through their life stories and achievements move us to understand that we are creators of our reality.
Wendy (in the celebrity house) and Xóchitl (in the political arena) are two leaders who with nothing, no resources, no opportunities nearby took responsibility for their future to take control and achieve their goals. They did not settle in a childhood or governmental complaint of lack.
Both are brave women who faced a misogynist country breaking systems, women who went against the current since they were little, who changed what seemed their destiny and today are an example for society, systems and the world.
They taught us that nothing is impossible and that with honesty, authenticity and effort we can fly in any sky, fulfill our dreams and not stay in the nest.
I celebrate, with great emotion, these two chingonas Mexicans and their rise.
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