Appearance is Everything... Or Is It?

"Pretty people." We see them everywhere. Magazines while waiting in line at the grocery store. Commercials that you can't seem to avoid these days. The pointless advertisements on websites that no one reads. Everyone seems to care about how they look. But maybe pretty isn't the cooker cutter image we seem to think it is. Maybe not everyone needs to be the same height and size and have each hair on their head in the exact same place as everyone else. That would make the world a really boring place. Everyone has different ideas, and honestly, without the ideas that come from everyone, we wouldn't be able to advance. Without the knowledge of how to build houses, it wouldn't matter if we were pretty or if we could build a computer, because we wouldn't have anywhere to live. Everyone contributes to society. Not everyone is cut out to be a person on an ad. But just because they aren't on the cover of magazines, doesn't make them not pretty. Pretty has to do with the mind. Or at least it should. I realize that people are mainly shallow and really care about appearance, but they maybe shouldn't, because there are so many more important things to worry about. If I find the cure for cancer, people shouldn't care what my hair looks like. And people should never think that the only thing that they have is their appearance. People have depth, they can't just be something as superficial as good looks, they aren't mannequins. Some people know things about celebrities and other culture things. Some people are super nice. Some people are both. Now some people are more athletic, and some favor thinking and intellectual things, but that doesn't make any of them more important or more attractive than the others. They both have great minds, and great hearts, at least in a perfect world, so their appearance shouldn't matter. I really wonder how many people think appearance is the most important thing. Like they wouldn't care if the person was the most horrible person in the world as long as they looked nice. Or how many people would not spend time with their friends because they have to go get their hair done or have to go tanning, and then look "nice" and then be all lonely. I personally don't think that appearance is all that important, it just matters how they act.
PrincessC