Rational Insanity
What people go through for the summer
The other night, I was watching Oprah on S23 and her topic was all about an obsessive compulsive condition called body dysmorphic disorder (BDD). It's a disorder that causes people to want to have multiple plastic surgeries and cosmetic procedures to try and change what they look like and how their body is. I felt really weird while watching that episode because Oprah's guests were people who have had multiple procedures done on themselves. Most of them have had at least twenty procedures from the simple 'botox' to the more complicated 'bone sculpting' even before they turned twenty years of age. The funny thing is, in their pursuit to achieve the perfect face of the perfect body, they end up looking extremely weird (think about Michael Jackson, then multiply that by ten).
Anyway, while BDD is not directly related to my topic this week, I would just like to point out that sometimes, our desire to be perfect can go haywire and we will most likely end up becoming a freak. This is a warning to most people who look at the summer as an opportunity to show off their faces, their bodies, and whatever else there is to show off. There are many youngsters who spend the few months before summer going through various (minor) procedures (mostly involving the face, i.e. skin peeling, bleaching, etc.) and spend hours every day in the gym or go for more drastic measures such as crash dieting and liposuction just so they could look good on the beach! My goodness! This is such a shallow concept of summer!
It's pathetic what people go through to look good to other people's eyes. The important thing is we all feel good about ourselves, regardless of how we look. This abstract concept of self-worth and self-satisfaction can save us from the various medical risks and dangers we might get ourselves into if we go through things characteristic of someone who wants drastic changes in his/her body. Don't get me wrong; I am not against cosmetic surgery or exercise in the gym, what I am against is the desire of most of us for a magic pill that will make us slim in one day, a potion that will give us the look of someone straight out of a magazine cover, or a cream that will make us more desirable to other people. These things are the stuff of fantasy and besides, most products that claim to have the 'power' to slim you up in three days, or make you white in a matter of a few weeks are products that I would call 'duds'. Duds are bombs that don't explode, so I think you get the idea.
On the other hand, if they do explode, they can give you a terrible bout of diarrhea, critical skin allergies, or boils.
All these things are the consequences of wanting to improve what we already have without having to work for it. So, how do we work for a beautiful face?
As I said, it is what we really feel about ourselves that matters and what other people think about us. I bet an average looking girl with confidence to boot would be more attractive to the guys on the beach than a dumb-ass boobsie, celluloid-laden chick. Again, know what you want and have the guts to go out there and get it. Cosmetic procedures are for the hopelessly ugly, and from what I gather, nobody is hopelessly ugly, it's just a matter of preference for the perceiver. While one person may be ugly to a certain person, he may not be ugly to another person. The gym of course is something that we should always consider a blessing, but then again, there is no shaping up in a matter of a month or two. If we really want to get the body that we want we have to work for it the natural way. Body building supplements may increase the rate at which our body improves, but these also have side effects, ask your doctor about them.
In closing, I suggest you go out and seize the summer the way the real you should and not the way some low-self-esteem-psychopath hiding behind pumps of collagen and silicon would want to.
Be rational; be insane... once in a while! And be healthy too!
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