Being a girl sucks...not really, but it makes a good title.

My friend Michelle posted a blog about the focus on the outer woman and how she feels about it. This is a response to her blog as I didn't want a huge comment for her on my opinion as well.

Yeah, I agree with the outward thing. Way too much focus on it. I was going to say that it was one thing I liked about Fiji was the lack of that kind of focus there, but then I realized that isn't true. It's just handled differently there. It can be just as bad to worse the attention from guys because of your looks, but the girls seem to not care as much about their looks as North American girls do. I said seem for those who disagree. They don't fuss with makeup and all that crap, partly because it's a luxury that they can't afford. In my opinion, it's way to hot to wear makeup there anyways, it'll just sweat right off. So there is a different focus on the outward appearance there. It's more what your natural assets are that draw attention, not what you add in the makeup department, unless it's the hookers, but that's another sad story for another time.
Away from Fiji now and back home to North America, for the moment. Do we really dislike our natural selves so much that we feel we have to do drastic things to fix something that isn't broken in the first place? Plastic surgery, implants, botox, extreme diets, extreme exercising, wiping away our regular face with makeup to put on a new one with makeup. For the record, not all makeup is a mask for people, some girls use it to enhance, and others use it to hide. That's partly why I hate the phrase "Putting on my face." It makes it seem like they don't like the one they have or that the one they have isn't the one that is real. It comes across like they are putting on their mask to hide behind in public. God made you the way you are and it is good, so get over it already. Does your life really depend on what others think of you? Is your opinion of yourself based on what others think? Aren't there bigger things to worry about than what the fickle self absorbed world that can turn on you in a heartbeat thinks of you? They don't know you, nor do they care to really know you. Looks are fleeting anyways, you're gonna get old and wrinkly no matter what you try to do to stop it, if you try you end up looking like Joan Rivers who looks like a clown that got hit in the face with a frying pan which then flattened her face, or you look like you got caught in a wind tunnel facing into the wind and it blew your skin back, now you have no wrinkles and a permanently pinched look on your face. I mean come on, how far can you really pull your face back until there is nothing left to pull back? Then after that it probably starts to sag again.
Anyways off that rant. I know I could try to "help" the outside, but I also know what would happen if I did try, and I really don't want that. I want the focus to be on the inside, not outside. Yeah, it's not helping me get the guy of my dreams (heehee), but I would rather win him over with my personality than my looks. That and I am just not a girlie person, so some of the things to make the outside look better are not in my normal personality range. Haha to that one. Plus I am too casual of a person, dressing up is wearing nicer pants and a non t-shirt. So it is difficult for me. As I said before, I don't really care, it's about the inside, not out, and I don't like to draw that kind of attention to myself, it usually means trouble is sure to follow-been there and seen it.
All finished my schpiel now, have headache so I must go. Catch you all on the flip side...