On the face of the earth
I just heard the song that goes, "They call you Mr. Personality because you’re so ugly…" That’s not a guarantee.
Do ugly people know they’re ugly? Do pretty people know they’re pretty? Would our looks affect our attitude or sense of entitlement? For example, if the pretty people became ugly and vice versa, would their taste in the opposite sex change? On the other hand, could people really be defined as ugly or pretty? Maybe not. Sometimes you really have to forget whether they’re pretty faces, or not, in order to deal with them normally. Then I wonder if people choose their friends according to their looks as they choose their partners. The worst are those who are feel they’re all that. I guess the best are those who have no idea they’re pretty and those who don’t know that they’re ugly. They just go about their daily business striving to be good persons because their outer aesthetics don’t matter as much as their inner beauty.
March 21st, 2007 at 6:08 pm
Howdy, Carissa,
You were at NYU as a speaker? Damn, I missed the chance to meet you in person.
I have this conversation all the time with my friend who will be specializing in plastic surgery after medical school. What is natural beauty or rather what isn’t natural beauty?
We live in modern times when you can buy yourself that ‘look’, whether it be Nicole Kidman’s nose or Halle Berry’s cheekbones. I’m not picking on the women folk, but there are more patients seeking a plastic surgeon than men. I blame my own sex. WE do pay attention to how women look. 3 out of the 4 Filipino women I know have dyed their hair brown or reddish brown and I’ve even seen blonde Asians. I don’t know, it doesn’t seem natural. I mean, the eyebrows don’t match the hair? Maybe I don’t get it because I’m not a woman, but to me, the less you change your ‘natural’ self,how God created you [what you were born with], the more confident you are about your personality, your conversational skills, your talent, your sense of humor et cet. If you’re happy and confident about who you are as a person, I don’t know if you would notice that your hair needs coloring or that your nose needs to be re-structured. Either that or you’re just basically so bored with your life you have nothing else to do but change your outlook.
Men can only admire your ‘body’ for so long. One of these days you actually need to have a conversation with that person, am I wrong?
I agree with you that people choose friends on how they look. Birds of the same feather flock together type thing. Women who value their looks above all their other attributes usually end up as trophy wives to the ones equally shallow as they are, most likely the wealthy ones who can afford to lavish them with the materialistic lifestyle that they need to be happy.
I find that women who are really comfortable with their natural look are happy in the real sense whereas the ones who aren’t as comfortable seem to look at happiness in the ‘abstract’, they think that materialism or changing their look will make them happy. They still don’t get it, do they?
Your secret admirer,
Ramon Nayar