Tuesday, August 01, 2006
Twenty-Three
Seri says in her blog that Liyana says her (Seri's) cheeks are chubbier.
Seri was offended and concludes chubby = fat.
I remember all the times
my cheeks were pinched.
How offended does that make me?
Hmm.
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OK, so I just watched the Shallow Hal movie for the second time a couple of days ago. Two days ago, I think. And it's a good movie. It's funny, and it has this nice moral behind it, you know? Never judge a person by the cover. It's the inside that's important. You know, 'beauty is only skin deep', and all.
But really, I don't think anyone 100% believes 'beauty is in the inside'. Well, ok, maybe there are some good, halos-on-their-head kinda people who do truly believe that. But me, I'm more of a skeptic, you know? Like, if people believe about inner beauty so much, how come they wanna look pretty in the outside?
Kk Han says that as humans, we're all naturally judgemental. As much as we know that you can't judge a book by its cover, we tend to do it accidentally anyhow. You see a girl with a small mouth who isn't smiling in the MRT (mainly, well, me) and you'd think that I'm this sourpuss girl, which, contrary to myth, is not true because I like to laugh a lot. If you see a purple dude with a huge grin, a long tail, and a green belly, you'd think he's a cute dude (example, Barney), when in truth, he's actually evil. So you see what I mean.
What Kk Han says is true, but interestingly, there's a reason behind why we're so judgemental in the first place (I read about this in a book about human brains once). Interestingly, the reason why we like pretty people so much is mainly because we want to find a good mate.
You know how animals produce offsprings so that their species won't be extinct? Well, same goes for humans, except that we don't really realise it that way. Anyhow, the reason we like pretty people is because when you have beautiful skin, great eyes and a slim body equals to: a young and
healthy person! And when you're young and healthy, you have a greater chance of producing more offsprings. Not only that, you're children would look fabulous too! So people want to, uh, mate (?) you. Basically they like you ah.
I know, sounds as if we're animals. But hey, that's the way the brain is. Just take it or leave it.
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4:31 PM
