Anglais " teenagers obsessed

To the Editor

  I appreciated your article on The value of life. I totally agree about the idea “ Surgery isn’t the answer and we can boost self-confidence without it”.

  First of all, this idea show to all the people in the world, but more to the teenagers that we can change anything in us, but is not necessary make a surgery to change about the person who we are. We just need to believe in us, looks to ourselves.

In this words we should have more confiance in us, we need to show that we are more that the people thing we are, no one should be tell us how we looks if we are more skinny, if we are more fat, pretty, e.t.c. Everyone have defects, however we didn’t need to demote people to make them feel better about themselves and those same reasons can lead to a person wanting to have surgery and feeling inferior to everyone else and feeling bad about himself.

  Secondly, i was about the opinion once the people are addicted to make surgery, it’s difficult to them give up. Once a time that teenagers are considered celebrity-obsessed the parents of this teens they need to support your children, if the parents are more presents in the life of a teenager or maybe care more about them, all this thoughts never will happen in a head of a teenager. The parents should be telling to your childrens how they look, they are perfect like how they are, and they didn’t need to care about of others people's say... the parents need to support the kids, to be on their side in the best and worst times, we can be strongest and more healthy it’s just a case of self-confidence, and of course it’s a message all parents should be giving to their kids.Not to mention that surgery’s like that can cause facial weakness or paralysis, and also to double visions, like as you mentioned, it’s time to think more about this and saw the problems and risks if we did this surgery can have.

   In conclusion, it’s a subject that should be discussed further. Despite being informed, some parents and also teenagers insists on making unhealthy life decisions, the parents are not properly informed and didn’t support their kids, and the kids when they didn’t understand the serious problem that they have and that will cause several problems in their lives and didn’t accept themselves as they are. Ultimately, it’s their problem, not ours.

Yours faithfully

                                                                                                                   Filipa

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