Appearance

Hi everyone! This is just something I wrote to express my views on appearances and judgemental stereotyping. In there I mentioned Susan Boyle; she's someone who performed for a widely-watched talent show and she wasn't the most beautifull person in the world, she was pretty ugly to be honest, but then surprised everyone with her brilliant singing. Hope you guys get some stuff from it, it's not the greatest written piece, I just wrote it because I was in a writting mood, and I might do some more things like this, on a different topic (maybe on positivity or something).

Love,
Jacques Bara
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Appearance

Appearance has become such a mould, such a base for society. Societies are heavily-emphasised with how we look, judging someone before they have even known them. For an example: Susan Boyle, she’s not the greatest looking person in the world and for this reason the audience judged her and declared she would be awful or is talent less; but she amazed them all with her beautifully inspiring singing. This proofs that talent can be hidden away from the world by appearance and judgemental stereotyping. Yes, we all judge and discriminate people for their appearance, but we should try and train ourselves not to. And those people who spend hours looking good or trying to be famous via beauty are, to be honest, quite shallow in their intents. I mean they’re not talent less, but they indulge themselves on a shallow and quite pathetic attempt of making people like them or love them. Just because someone is beautiful or you think they’re hot, doesn’t mean they’re nice or you would want to be around them. It’s the raw personality that counts, and to me that could be hidden under an ugly cover. Once, however, you’ve delved and explored their person will you be able to rid him or her of their cover and know that they, inside their heart, are beautiful in a mental and personal way. It’s the heart that’ll never fade or be forgotten. When you die people aren’t going to remember how you looked, they’re going to remember you by how you act and treat others. You may have pride over your appearance, I grant you that, but don’t let in consume you into someone who has only arrogance in their appearance and doesn’t let people know how nice or good they are but how bad they are or how ugly they are. And, I believe, most people who aren’t this ‘perfect image’ are the nicest people; they know how it feels to be ridiculed and discriminated and they don’t want to inflict the damage they’ve received to anyone else. No one’s perfect so you need not be this ‘perfect image’ but if you try to become that ‘perfect image’ you’ll never be truly loved. Don’t be one to quickly judge; if you don’t talk to someone based on their appearance you could be missing out on a good friend, a good opportunity.