Go to a grocery store and walk to the nearest magazine rack. What do you see? Pictures of bikini clad girls, men with 6-pack abs and bowling ball sized muscles along with headlines of “10 Ways to Get Richer”, “Lose 50 Pounds by Next Month”, and “Foods That Leave You Looking Younger.” Today the media has pushed the “importance” of wealth and good looks far more than ever before leaving the world to focus on the outward appearance more than that is necessary.
A problem that today’s society has is that we are all becoming to selfish. Wealth has become one of the dominating factors that have led to control our world. When one chooses a career to pursue, what is the first thing he or she considers? How much that person will make. Sure it’s important that you make enough that you can live off of but is it really that necessary to go for the jobs that you know will hate doing for the next forty or so years but will do any way because it will make you richer. That to me is just idiotic. What does one need so much wealth for that it won’t satisfy their needs to live comfortably on a modest living style? Wealth has never bought happiness for you can see that there are very few multi-million and billionaires that are truly happy with what they have and how they are living. Take the lives of celebrities. How many times does one hear of their divorces, drug abuse, plastic surgery happenings, etc from the media? It happens way too often to even consider of keeping track. Wealth in itself has been corrupted to out of proportion. The only way to solve this corruptness is to raise awareness to our friends, family, and our communities about the realistic views of wealth and how we can distinguish our wants from needs and live in a more modest fashion and move away from greed.
Another thing to consider is that beauty is being emphasized greatly in our world. Seasonal fashions, makeup, diets, plastic surgery, Botox, exercise programs, you name it, it is all centered on the idea of having yourself look more beautiful then you ever were. There is nothing wrong with trying to look your best but things cross the line when the media has imprinted the idea of a perfect body and a perfect face in the minds of all of us that some feel pressured to be this perfect. This pressure has led to eating disorders, obsessions with exercise, addictions to diet pills, deaths and countless other things. The imagination of the human mind on what we consider to be perfect beauty has left in its path a mess of confused and unhappy minds and bodies. On a happier note, many organizations and motivational speakers have emerged and are trying to correct this unrealistic view of beauty. We also need to take part and spread the word of the false view of beauty and preach on what true beauty actually is, which is our personalities, our actions, our talents, and our own bodies that we possess.
It’s sad to see that our world today has taken such a great emphasis on our outward appearances. What ever happened to what was inside of us was what really mattered and the outside was just a plus? Though there are organizations and other people raising an awareness on the falseness of what the magazines at the grocery store and other media have publicized, we also need to help alert others around us about how our wealth, looks, and other outward appearance are not what matters most importantly but what how we are as individuals with our talents, actions, and smarts.
A problem that today’s society has is that we are all becoming to selfish. Wealth has become one of the dominating factors that have led to control our world. When one chooses a career to pursue, what is the first thing he or she considers? How much that person will make. Sure it’s important that you make enough that you can live off of but is it really that necessary to go for the jobs that you know will hate doing for the next forty or so years but will do any way because it will make you richer. That to me is just idiotic. What does one need so much wealth for that it won’t satisfy their needs to live comfortably on a modest living style? Wealth has never bought happiness for you can see that there are very few multi-million and billionaires that are truly happy with what they have and how they are living. Take the lives of celebrities. How many times does one hear of their divorces, drug abuse, plastic surgery happenings, etc from the media? It happens way too often to even consider of keeping track. Wealth in itself has been corrupted to out of proportion. The only way to solve this corruptness is to raise awareness to our friends, family, and our communities about the realistic views of wealth and how we can distinguish our wants from needs and live in a more modest fashion and move away from greed.
Another thing to consider is that beauty is being emphasized greatly in our world. Seasonal fashions, makeup, diets, plastic surgery, Botox, exercise programs, you name it, it is all centered on the idea of having yourself look more beautiful then you ever were. There is nothing wrong with trying to look your best but things cross the line when the media has imprinted the idea of a perfect body and a perfect face in the minds of all of us that some feel pressured to be this perfect. This pressure has led to eating disorders, obsessions with exercise, addictions to diet pills, deaths and countless other things. The imagination of the human mind on what we consider to be perfect beauty has left in its path a mess of confused and unhappy minds and bodies. On a happier note, many organizations and motivational speakers have emerged and are trying to correct this unrealistic view of beauty. We also need to take part and spread the word of the false view of beauty and preach on what true beauty actually is, which is our personalities, our actions, our talents, and our own bodies that we possess.
It’s sad to see that our world today has taken such a great emphasis on our outward appearances. What ever happened to what was inside of us was what really mattered and the outside was just a plus? Though there are organizations and other people raising an awareness on the falseness of what the magazines at the grocery store and other media have publicized, we also need to help alert others around us about how our wealth, looks, and other outward appearance are not what matters most importantly but what how we are as individuals with our talents, actions, and smarts.
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