This isn't a new thing; we've all noticed it in our lives. When it comes to a relationship, looks don't matter; all that matter is the person's personality, right?
I've started to think of this as absolutely bullshit. Looks don't matter is a complete lie in the end because truly it matters more than most things. If looks didn't matter, we wouldn't have be seeing "beautiful" people on tv, "beautiful" on print ads, and pervasive messages telling us that we are not good enough and need to change our physical appearance to be truly beautiful. Yeah there are businesses out there that are promoting an idea that you should feel comfortable in your own skin. Dove, for example, has a campaign and it helps promote that exact idea. While trying to promote that, they are linking that feeling good about yourself imagine to their product; with their product you can feel just as beautiful. We wouldn't have sites that you upload your picture to and have other people rate you on a scale of 1-10 how "hot" you are, wouldn't have sites that you actually have to gain access because it truly is a "beautiful people" club. Even the attractiveness of regular day objects matter, so how can we say the physical appearance of people don't matter if we care so much about the appearance of everything else. We wouldn't need plastic surgeons to make us look better, give people lypo, lip injections, botox, and all the other fun medical procedures to make people look "beautiful."
People wonder why people (especially girls) let this get to them. Beauty is so abstract that it's impossible to achieve true beauty and people don't like that. People are bother by this thought because we see constantly see the "beautiful" people in a much pretty side of life; it just seems they have everything and can get anything they want because they are "beautiful." People constantly pick at their own little problems because humans have the tendency to want to better themselves all the time. We all want to believe that we are a good person and if we can better ourselves, the more we can the better. We will always know someone better than us and we'll strive to be that and even better.
Is this the only thing we're lying about to ourselves? Of course not. The list can go on forever but we lie to ourselves so we can sleep at night. Lie to ourselves to convince ourselves that life is okay, even though its not, we are a good person, even though we are very selfish/jealous, tomorrow will be a better day, even though we will be dwelling on yesterday. Don't let this get you down, just realize that this is happening.
Don't get me wrong, as much as I think looks matter, I do believe that in the end, personality and a person's true heart matter the most. Yes, lying may be mad but it can benefit people's feelings, even our own. This is a very hypocritical and unfair life we have but we just need balance out the good and the bad in life and hopefully we get through this.
Thanks.
-Allison
I've started to think of this as absolutely bullshit. Looks don't matter is a complete lie in the end because truly it matters more than most things. If looks didn't matter, we wouldn't have be seeing "beautiful" people on tv, "beautiful" on print ads, and pervasive messages telling us that we are not good enough and need to change our physical appearance to be truly beautiful. Yeah there are businesses out there that are promoting an idea that you should feel comfortable in your own skin. Dove, for example, has a campaign and it helps promote that exact idea. While trying to promote that, they are linking that feeling good about yourself imagine to their product; with their product you can feel just as beautiful. We wouldn't have sites that you upload your picture to and have other people rate you on a scale of 1-10 how "hot" you are, wouldn't have sites that you actually have to gain access because it truly is a "beautiful people" club. Even the attractiveness of regular day objects matter, so how can we say the physical appearance of people don't matter if we care so much about the appearance of everything else. We wouldn't need plastic surgeons to make us look better, give people lypo, lip injections, botox, and all the other fun medical procedures to make people look "beautiful."
People wonder why people (especially girls) let this get to them. Beauty is so abstract that it's impossible to achieve true beauty and people don't like that. People are bother by this thought because we see constantly see the "beautiful" people in a much pretty side of life; it just seems they have everything and can get anything they want because they are "beautiful." People constantly pick at their own little problems because humans have the tendency to want to better themselves all the time. We all want to believe that we are a good person and if we can better ourselves, the more we can the better. We will always know someone better than us and we'll strive to be that and even better.
Is this the only thing we're lying about to ourselves? Of course not. The list can go on forever but we lie to ourselves so we can sleep at night. Lie to ourselves to convince ourselves that life is okay, even though its not, we are a good person, even though we are very selfish/jealous, tomorrow will be a better day, even though we will be dwelling on yesterday. Don't let this get you down, just realize that this is happening.
Don't get me wrong, as much as I think looks matter, I do believe that in the end, personality and a person's true heart matter the most. Yes, lying may be mad but it can benefit people's feelings, even our own. This is a very hypocritical and unfair life we have but we just need balance out the good and the bad in life and hopefully we get through this.
Thanks.
-Allison
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