I experience it every day. Walking through the halls and overhearing conversations about crazy diets girls go on, scrolling through Instagram and Twitter seeing photoshopped parts of Kim Kardashian I didn’t need to see. I try to forget the “#bodygoals” when in reality I underestimate how much it gets to me. It’s not long after I hear some girl comment on another girl’s body that I look in the mirror and wonder what people are saying about mine. It needs to stop.

Living a healthy lifestyle should be everyone’s goal; however, having someone denounce the way you look doesn’t promote a healthy mindset. People forget how much girls, as well as guys, take to heart. We try not to let some things get to us, but there’s a limit of how much we can take. Sometimes even the slightest comment can leave us second guessing our appearances. On top of everything, celebrities and social media fuel our insecurities.

Comparing ourselves to celebrities is unrealistic. Unless you wake up every morning and have a personal hair stylist and makeup artist to get you ready, you can’t compare yourself to someone who does. We don’t have thousands of extra dollars lying around to spend on surgery to “fix things.” We don’t have a professional photoshop our bodies to look better before posting on Instagram.

Dove recently conducted a survey of women from 10 countries and only 2 percent of the women reported to believe they are beautiful. 60 percent strongly agreed that comments from others and the media pressure women to enhance their physical appearance. More than two-thirds of women strongly agree “the media and advertising set an unrealistic standard of beauty that most women can’t ever achieve.”

It’s time to recognize that we all have different forms of beauty and for good reasons. We see things about ourselves no one else recognizes. We pick ourselves apart over the smallest flaws and let them build up until we look in the mirror and see someone completely different.  And that girl you look up to, or the one that made a negative comment about the way you look, she’s doing the same thing. But if we focus the energy we spend “fixing” ourselves and direct it to loving the body and the person we are maybe we could make that 2 percent statistic grow.