The Horrible Truth

My last post was about my own life is/life isn’t. It’s actually about my delusional idea of what life should be and should not be. Why delusional? Because let’s admit it. No matter which side we look at life, it is most definitely about how physically beautiful you are, how rich you are and how talented you are. Pick up the morning paper or any magazine lying around your house. Skim it and all you’ll see are advertisements and products on how to look good, movie stars wearing skimpy clothes with perfect curves and breasts and job advertisements requiring pleasing personality and certain height requirement. Doesn’t this all show superficialities? It’s all about being perfect, being popular and earning lots and lots of money.

Try telling someone that being rich or ugly doesn’t really matter and all you’ll get is a scowl. With the way we live today, attractiveness and richness is all that is appealing. Let’s face it; being pretty and rich sure does get you somewhere. It puts you way ahead of others. The tall, pretty and sexy girls almost always get the job. The white, rich guys always get the girls. So unfair.

But here’s the catch. If you try to understand and accept the painful truth of life, you’ll eventually learn to work against it. Look at the famous and rich people today. Many of them are not very pretty and rich when they started out. But somehow they find a way to get what they wanted. It’s often surprising to know that those who aren’t rich, attractive or popular before have managed to do great things.

So, all ‘poor and unattractive’ people out there don’t lose hope. Accept the harsh facts of life and realize that you can work against it and trash its implications. Sometimes it’s nice to have fun and believe that the superficialities of life don’t really matter. It’s nice telling others that money and looks don’t matter. But the fact is, no matter how many times you tell others or yourself that they don’t matter, they still do and that is not going to change. What you can only do is accept it and work against it.

The whole point is: Open your eyes to the dim-witted rules of life. Acknowledge that life is hard, painful, and ugly. But realize also that Life is good, Life is fun and Life is beautiful.