au naturale

Woopee, first blog!! So as ever, and I'm sure the case is dangerously similar to others, I am writing a blog as the key distraction strategy to aid me in some very enjoyable revision procrastination.

So recently I've being thinking about beauty and how this effects how people are percieved. Who are these beautiful people in the media? Are they real? No, of course not, they came from the wonderful place of dream land. A magical realm of delicious fantasy where everyone is perfect. The truth is, a real face is not airbrushed and erased of every tell tale take line of age, or the dark circles explaining what you did the night before. The face is not that boring, the face tells a story.

Women wake up each morning and rush to their mirrors, desperate to conceal every blemish, every flaw. Smearing on liberal amounts of armour. Once summer hits the skies, a
mad frenzy erupts in the form of cabbage soup and salad. What joy !! But hang on...are we not better than the furious fight to visually impress? Surely we're all aware looks cannot last forever. Age and fatigue will one day creep up on us all. You don't really tend to hear people worrying about how they need to enrich their mind every morning or do a good deed for someone. But are these not also beautiful things? The slog of physical perfection is boring, love your quirks and enjoy your life. If you were meant to be a miserable cold beauty you'd be a statue.

Indeed we are all guilty of blips and hang ups and naturally so. It is part of the human condition to want to improve yourself, bit like evolution mate. But improvement can be more than skin deep. We can blame the media for all of this. It blows my mind that if you are engulfed in something long enough, it's power to influence can be all too easy. Perception of beauty is whatever the media tells us it is, we are weary slaves of a cruel manipulator putting our standards to the test. Women have died for their looks, men have died for their looks. Of course, there will always be reasons underneath surface impressions but the media is a catalyst for much unnecessary self loathing. Most people do not look like Megan Fox. Fuck, Megan Fox doesn't even look like Megan Fox so find a second to appreciate that you are a real human being (or alien...well ya never know) you are your own person and you're beautiful for what you do as well as how you look. Stop obsessing and get your teeth into life !!

Unfortunately, this may sound like a load of cliche hippy bollocks but I hope you get the point anyhoo :).
Cheers guys !!