Does anyone remember that Twilight Zone episode where the girl is in the hospital, bandages covering her face, with all these hopes that this surgery would finally make her beautiful? Only to find that the surgery has been deemed a complete failure even though, after the bandages removed, the girl is what we would consider strikingly beautiful? The Doctors and Nurses faces then suddenly appear, after being hidden through the entire episode, and you find their faces completely distorted and malformed. Shocking, even.
Am I the only one that finds a haunting resemblance to what Actors and Actresses do to themselves these days, to try to hold on to some sort of youthful beauty? I almost find some to look repulsive. I want to just look away. Whatever happened to aging gracefully?
Learn to limit yourself; to content yourself with some definite work; dare to be what you are and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not; and to believe in your own individuality.
~Henri Frederic Amiel
4 comments:
Sadly, we live in a superficial world. I don't see it changing any time soon. The pressure on women is terrible. Men have that pressure, too, but it is less than what women have to suffer with.
I agree. Even I find myself looking in the mirror wishing I could change this or that. A snip here...a foot there. :P
But then I think I need to make me like myself how I am. Regardless of how everyone else looks. There has got to be someone out there that appreciates my odd/off sense of humor and limited intelligence. :P
Both your humor and intelligence are above average!
Well, thanks!
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