Being a girl is tough, mainly due to other girls. From middle school to middle age – there’s often gossip, hurt feelings, and lots of drama. You likely have a group of close girlfriends, but it’s unlikely you have never talked behind each other’s backs. Even more so, you probably spend a good amount of your time together analyzing the actions of girls that aren’t in your friend group.
Did you see what she was wearing? Why does she think her makeup looks good like that? Could her skirt get any shorter? OF COURSE she’s talking to him.
And the list goes on. I’m just as guilty of it as everybody else, but it’s something that I have been noticing in myself and others more and more recently.
Lately I’ve been spending a majority of my time with my guy friends and came to a startling realization. They support each other in everything. Very rarely do I hear them say anything bad about each other, or any other guy for that matter – and I think that makes all the difference.
I think that as girls, we should strive for this. Stop talking behind each other’s backs. Build each other up. Tell others how pretty they look. Complement complete strangers on how great their hair looks or how much you love their shoes. Be one of the few girls out there that is for the girls.
We need to come together. Just the other night a random girl stopped me on the stairs of a party that I was at and said “This is random, but I just wanted to tell you that you are really pretty.” And you know what? It made my night. We need more of that. There are plenty of undeserving guys out there that will tear us down and break our hearts, we don’t need to do it to each other.
xo,
Jaclyn