Sunday, October 01, 2006
When looks are more important than Life
If u are as blown away as I was with the above statement, then congrats, you're normal. If you're not, please skip this entry and come back another day.
It happened over lunch on Saturday. My second aunt had come over to pay a visit. During the course of the lunch, she commented that my face was quite bad. Lately, I have been suffering from an acne outbreak. According to my facial therapist, it's apparently due to a food allergy. So for the past few weeks I have been doing process elmination and I am glad to say that I have narrowed it down to 2 things. But more about that on another day...
I told my aunt about the allergy thingy. And she commented that I must take care of my face blah blah blah. And that's when she made this comment (in Mandarin): your face is very important, more important than your life.
I was speechless... I mean... WTF??? My looks are more important than my life?? Immediately I retorted that I did not agree with her. I can have a scar on my face for all I care, but if guys are put off by it, so be it. I feel guys who feel that way are superficial. So the scar makes for a good test.
Later that night, while relating the incident to DC, he was telling me that there is an old Cantonese saying that goes exactly the same way. Perhaps my aunt had meant it that way, jokingly. But I certainly didn't feel so. I know I am not a looker. Looks wise, I'm average, and I know that there are many other gorgeous people out there. But i have other values, traits and hopefully virtues to make up for it. It's just a question of whether people are willing to go over the physical aspect and to get to know more about me.
And my life is short... If I am going to spend a whole lot of time obsessing about my looks, I don't think i have time for anything else...
If looks are more important than life... go for plastic surgery
It happened over lunch on Saturday. My second aunt had come over to pay a visit. During the course of the lunch, she commented that my face was quite bad. Lately, I have been suffering from an acne outbreak. According to my facial therapist, it's apparently due to a food allergy. So for the past few weeks I have been doing process elmination and I am glad to say that I have narrowed it down to 2 things. But more about that on another day...
I told my aunt about the allergy thingy. And she commented that I must take care of my face blah blah blah. And that's when she made this comment (in Mandarin): your face is very important, more important than your life.
I was speechless... I mean... WTF??? My looks are more important than my life?? Immediately I retorted that I did not agree with her. I can have a scar on my face for all I care, but if guys are put off by it, so be it. I feel guys who feel that way are superficial. So the scar makes for a good test.
Later that night, while relating the incident to DC, he was telling me that there is an old Cantonese saying that goes exactly the same way. Perhaps my aunt had meant it that way, jokingly. But I certainly didn't feel so. I know I am not a looker. Looks wise, I'm average, and I know that there are many other gorgeous people out there. But i have other values, traits and hopefully virtues to make up for it. It's just a question of whether people are willing to go over the physical aspect and to get to know more about me.
And my life is short... If I am going to spend a whole lot of time obsessing about my looks, I don't think i have time for anything else...
If looks are more important than life... go for plastic surgery
# posted by Xallista @ 11:18 PM 
