Thursday, July 22, 2004

Simply put...

This is a quick reminder to myself...its something M told me one day either at the gym or in an email or somewhere...I reminded her of her theory last nite and she said that she would write it in a blog...so this is my inaccurate, condensed version.

She said to me, that people who were not born "pretty" or "beautiful" and realised it at an early stage, tend to develop their personality and talents as they do not have "looks" to rely on.

People wont talk to you because ur the prettiest girl in school...people would talk to you because they thought it was cool that u played an instrument...or that u were the best at a subject in school...etc...

This isnt to say that there are no "beautiful" people who have personality &/or talent...its just that the "not so beautiful" people tend to have more personality &/or talent to make up for the lack of beauty on the outside.

Which is where the whole "beauty is skin deep" comes from, i think anyway...

M also believes in the whole Ugly Duckling - Swan transformation...im not sure if i agree with this one...is there such a thing as a Swan - Ugly Duckling transformation, ie the reverse?
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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I believe in the ugly duckling sydnrome and vice versa.
There are a lot of late bloomers.

I also believe vice versa. I met some old friends earlier in the year. One of the guys I used to play bball with and was pretty popular with the girls had really let himself go. Pot belly, double chin.... He'd had really looked different. Looked totally different.

ESTEE LAUDER once said "There are no ugly women, just women who don't care". And that rings so true. If you take pride in your appearance it will show.

Guess thats my point.

The Game

4:44 pm
Anonymous said...

How about this theory? Beautiful people feel empowered and confident to achieve the things they want to, and have moreso an opportunity (what a superficial society we live in) to do so than said "ugly" person.

The theory seems awfully biased against so called "beautiful people", and who/what is the definitive recognition of beauty anyway? What about the proverbial "eye of the beholder"?

Nice theory, but.. would it suffice to say that such theories are concocted by those who wish to perhaps fulfil their own sufficiency?

Anon

7:23 pm
Anonymous said...

You know what really bugs me about this post? It's that it's not about the achievement of the human spirit. It's not about staying strong through adversity.

It's about self validation. What kind of mockery do we make of another human being when we try and validate them for who they are.

"yes he's butt ugly but... oh he plays the piano I love that". You might say that superficiality is part of society, but is there little need to propogate that thought?

I'm not sure if you're a religious person, or even someone who believes in a God, but shouldn't we think the best of a person with regards to God might have made everyone of us special in our own rights? On this notion, why then would someone have to explicitly achieve something in order to validate themselves as "special". Are you saying that not even is, and the only way someone can achieve such status might be to do something out of ordinary?

Is is why people are so judgemental of others?

"he's too good to be true.. there must be some dirt on them! Maybe he's got 1 testicle!!!!"

Anyway, I'm sad now too...

Anon

12:32 pm
Anonymous said...

I totally agree with the other Anonymous, it couldn't be more well put

5:32 pm

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