Pimples.

Yes.  The title.  It's weird.

But, I believe that it is true as well.  And I'm sick and tired of people pretending that it's not.  EVERYONE GETS PIMPLES.  Even celebrities, like the god-like Hugh Jackman (well, maybe not him...).  Either you get acne in your teens, when stressed, during allergy season, during your 20s, or you have them your entire life, one way or another you WILL experience the battle of the pimple.  And that's okay.

Now of course, the beginning paragraph was talking about actual skin breakout and little white pus balls, but I don't want to write about actual acne my entire time on this blog.  I want to talk about the metaphorical pimples we go through in reality.  Because like real-life pimples, everyone has a hard time in their life.  Even celebrities, this time Hugh Jackman included.

Anyway.  I realized that I have a lot of friends who are going through a variety of problems.  Some of them are single (which I don't really know why that is a problem), some of them have supppppper possessive boyfriends (seriously, when he is telling you that you have "permission" to talk to your friends, it's time to reevaluate), some have health issues that can't be explained, others have anxiety/ depression/ suicidal thoughts, and others have self confidence issues.  That list doesn't even scratch the surface.  Needless to say, they aren't alone in their problems.  Yet for some reason they think they are the only ones who "break out".  Crazy how that works, but it's a truth

I feel like society has made my generation believe that it is NOT okay to have blemishes, that you should always look perfect and happy.  But why?  Who are we trying to impress?

But I'll get to my opinions on all of that in my coming posts.  I just wanted to scratch the surface of what I would be doing with this blog and define the word pimple.  Because it's not always supposed to be taken literally.  Well, now it isn't anyway.