I woke up this morning thinking 'this is gonna be my day'. and it is likely it will. but that is not what I want to talk about. today's topic is 'looks'. how many movies about 're-inventing look' have you seen? remeber 'ugly betty', or 'the shape of things' or so many weekly tv shows about how to ghange your style and appearance. what is wrong with that, you will probably ask. well... nothing! actually, at a closer look everything is wrong!
I have never been considered the pretty one. during highschool I was always regarded as the funny one. it did not matter that much at the time and probably I did not realize it mattered that much afterwards either, but somehow it made me dislike very pretty women. (of course it doesn't apply to men beacuse God knows I love beautiful men). ok. so where lies my problem? it is all in the attitude. have you realized that dealing with a pretty person seems so much easier that dealing with someone not that pretty? have you ever felt discriminated against because someone you felt was prettier that u? well I have. and this is not about being pretty or not. this is not about whether to like or not pretty people, as it is not about to hate or not ugly people. this is about seeing people as humans not as barbie dolls (or kens). so why, when you apply for a job you have to cut your hair, or do your make-up and so on and so forth? noone will care, when you work in shifts at 3 am behind some stinky office, noone will care how you look. but goddamn if you do not look impecable at first sight!
being clean and neat has nothing to do with being pretty. beauty is a gift or a curse (depends on how you look at it), some have it, some don't; some are happy to have it, some crave to have it and few are delighted they do not have to put up with the burden of it. because believe me: being beautiful is a burden!
and yet we are in some kind of quest to be surrounded by beautiful people... has anyone ever even tried to give a chance from the beginning to someone not that pretty? of course most of us have employees, or people around us who are not the beauties of the world, but honestly, haven't you ever considered that if those around you were cuter things would have probably been just a little bit different? like 'ow the waitress that works in my motel, well she is fat and her pants look like buckets; I bet that if she would loose some of that weight and dress in a skirt, put some makeup on, she would have a lot more customers...' each of us has thought similar things at one point is our lives...
so my final pledge is... think about how you would like to be treated! people are people before it all. we all have feelings, pretty or not, trashy or slumpy, neat or well dressed, with or without makeup. but above all remember that beauty comes and goes! it's the inner beauty and the qualities of a person that last to the end...
2 comments:
nice blog... and the subject... nice, interesting. go girl...
first of all(sorry about how bad i write) beauty is not a burden.
second, people are attracted to beautiful people for good reasons.
beauty is not a burden, unless one accepts the idea, it can create great advantages. In rare cases can lead to an undesirable outcome, however... most of them can be easily avoided, of course by "removing" the beauty factor.No very hard, i believe.(by dressing and hiding some of the features). the real "burden" comes from the advantages offered by this "beautiful" status, if one in a wining position moves poorly, in some cases can find (him/her)self in an extraordinary bad position. So in my opinion, "the whining" are the ones who lack certain ... features.
why people are attracted to beautiful people? answer: why not?
this thing is primal, the flesh in us wants what it should be "best", although sometimes we can be deceived. beautiful = healthy, fit and that's pretty much about it, simple universal rule, every living thing abides by them.
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