Dec 02 2008
Satan’s Shapely Thighs
It’s a shame that so many of us read magazines.
I know, I know…you’re asking yourself right now, “What is this idiot talking about?”
All I’m saying is that every time we open magazines these days, we see beautiful people. Perfect people. There they are in our clothing ads, in our perfume ads, in those two-page television show promos, and even in technology ads. My God, don’t they look happy? Oh, but don’t they look disgustingly inhuman?
News flash, people: the people we see in magazines are an illusion. They are a heavily airbrushed, nipped-and-tucked, well-tailored, over-exercised, underfed, perfectly-coiffed fantasy. Beauty such as the conglomerates are trying to sell us doesn’t exist! If you’re feeling depressed because you can’t look like Suzie X in so-and-so jeans ad, stop it right now!
All of us has it within ourselves to be beautiful, but in our own way. Most of us don’t have the genes to look like the people in the magazines, nor do we have magical editing tools to remove all of our cellulite, wrinkles, moles, pimples, gray hairs, and whatever other kinds of blemishes that real people have.
Don’t aim to look like those stinky, filthy, stupid ads.
Aim to look like yourself, healthy and happy. Buy a new, smaller pair of jeans and aim to fit those. Aim to wear make-up that makes you look like you, and not some idealized version of a human being. Aim to look in the mirror every morning and say, “Damn I look good!”
Take it from someone who’s just now getting over self-esteem issues that have plagued him his whole life: it’s better being happy for what you are than regretting what you aren’t.
