Image

After posting a comment about image, I thought I would do a blog about it, and get off my chest what I feel is important and not important. Some people, well when I say some I mean quite a few, who can be quite cruel towards others about their looks. A lot of things are looked down on and even laughed at when it comes to ones personal image, or even what a person is born with. For example freckles. I don't think there is anything wrong with having freckles, they don't make you look deformed or ugly. Having red hair, (natural not dyed) is in my opinion is a very beautiful look, and should not be frowned upon. Being curvy, while some men would think curvy is over weight in their eyes, in-fact being curvy quite healthy looking and quite appealing. Should we as people laugh and point even at those who are over weight? No. Imagine yourself if you were not the ideal weight and people were laughing behind your back, you wouldn't like it, so don't do it. I for one am the exact opposite, I am quite lean, and I have always been, and I personally do not like it when people say that I am so thin. Although I am reasonably happy with my own image, I still do not care for people making fun of what I was born with.
But we do have a problem in our society about our image. And in a lot of ways I blame the media and fashion. You got to look a particular way, or otherwise you are not in with the in-crowd.
My advise is, just be yourself and don't pay attention to what others are doing to themselves to make others like them. You don't have to wear your hair a particular way, wear make-up, diet, under dress just to make an impression on the world, because of pressures in our so called civilised world. Be yourself and be comfortable with yourself, for you will find that you will be happier for it.
Just one more thing before I go, I will tell you a true story that I was told only a few weeks ago. A friend was telling me how she knows of someone, who is married, and her husband has NEVER seen her without make-up. I was like, are you frikkin' kidding me? No, she said. If I was the husband, I think I would prefer to see my wife without the make-up. I know on the wife's part it is a confidence thing, but to not reveal the real you to your love is shocking to say the least. This is the kind of thing that I am worried about when it comes to the younger generation of today, not happy with themselves, so they feel they need to be someone else to make people like them.
I was told a few times when growing up, to be happy with yourself, and in saying that, I think too many are not happy with what they were born with. All in all we are all unique, but if we try to cover up who we are, doesn't that make you a sheep?