Summary
- Looks. This has always been a touchy subject, but it shapes our lives. People treat the better looking people nicer and give others less attention. It’s the truth. How we look affects our daily life, self-esteem, how we feel about ourselves. At a first glance, this is what people see. They sometimes judge us as if looks are everything. Also, it doesn’t help that everywhere you look reminds you to get a model-like body or chiseled abs. Looks are part of our identity, but it’s not everything. We have talents other than just looks, and we should bring those talents to light also.
- Everything has strengths and weaknesses. Embrace your uniqueness.
- Being good looking has it’s perks, but there are also disadvantages. - When you are good looking, a tendency is people come around you, because you look good. Meaning, the relationship is superficial. It will be harder to find friends apart from ones interested in your looks. As for the advantages, people treat you better, give you discounts, etc. I use this as an example to show both sides of the coin, good and the bad. It doesn’t matter how you are born to look embrace both sides and the uniqueness of you.
- Education doesn’t influence just us, but also everyone after us.
- What we emphasize on and give attention to is what people will notice. - If ever since you were little, all everyone ever talks about was how handsome or beautiful you look, you would spend a lot more time on making yourself look amazing. To look good isn’t bad, but to think you ARE your looks is bad. To think your identity and self worth are all determined by how you look is destructive. So if we are not careful, we could be giving this message to the family members or friends we love. They might grow up with all the pain and misunderstanding about looks.
- Focusing too much on our physical looks takes away our potential to develop other talents we posses. - Time is all we have. It’s the real currency we are paying in this life. If we educate people on thinking looks is everything, a lot of time is taken away from learning finance, music, science, or kindness. The real damage here is the girl who might have been a world class chef, but her self-esteem was shot down due to her looks. It’s the guy that didn’t become a CEO, because he spend most of his time drowning with doubt about his crooked teeth. Unused talents from potentially amazing individuals are the real casualties of the society with the wrong kind of education.
- What model do you want to set?
- We vote not just with our election votes, but also our dollar, time, and attention. If we want to support a society where looks is everything, we give time and attention to it. What do you give your attention to?