It's okay to be average. It's okay if you're 22 and your idea of a perfect Friday night is curling up with a book instead of heading out clubbing or you're middle-aged and you have a "job" and not a "career", or you prefer sweats, a t-shirt and your hair in a bun over fancy dresses and $150 up-dos. And guess what? It's okay to be average looking, too. Magazines, TV shows, movies, music videos and social media can often lead people to feel like they have to *be* what they're constantly seeing, but you don't! You can just be you. You're still worth knowing even if you don't fit the labels you constantly see in media. But also, labels aren't the evil that many people paint them to be: it's OK to call someone "hot", "brilliant" or "charismatic" - there are a lot of people in the world that fit those labels. The reality is that in the hundreds of thousands of years of human existence, there's always been a difference between "attractive" and "not attractive" people, and gradations between the two. There's been a push lately to imply that every physical type is "beautiful", but that's also not healthy. Having a false sense of identity can be just as harmful as feeling like you need to change who you are to fit in. The people pushing for this are conflating "beautiful" as a physical description and "beautiful" as a description of a person's behavior or personality. You can be physically unattractive and still be a beautiful person. You can be physically obese and still be a beautiful person. The world is filled with average people! It doesn't mean you aren't worthwhile as a human. Your value stems from how you behave, not what you look like. As long as you take care of your personal responsibilities and you do it in a *kind* way, then guess what? You are a beautiful person. Acknowledging and accepting who we are physically while working to be the best person we can be is a healthy way to live life. There's nothing wrong with there being a societal standard for beauty, as long as we all work towards a society that also recognizes and appreciates the average. So to all my average people out there, I salute you! Thank you for being who you are.