Face Value
Observation
Romish Shrestha
In the contemporary world there are no discrepancies
about the significance or importance of glamour and fashion. The more you
look good the more you are sought after and adored. People that do look
good quite easily become the object of affection of the people around
them and are admired for their seemingly perpetual grace in even the
most insignificant things they do. Even the most unbiased has to succumb
to the fact that attractive people do have an easier way of life than
the people that unfortunately are not blessed with the goods. I being
rather of the other sort know for a fact that the other extreme of the
scale reflects a life of exaggerated hardships. Fore drawn conclusions are
the most difficult to cope with. The thing that vexes the most is that
people pre-determine your character solely on the way you look. With
these fore drawn conclusions it becomes almost impossible to make a good
impression when in dire times and at most times than not, you end up
being unsuccessful in an imperative job interview, a promotion request or
something of the sort. Being the object of much of these
stratifications I can now decipher the behavior of my confronter by the expression on
his/her (and mostly it is her) face. These harsh realities I have come
to accept long ago and now it even seems very queer, how people can be
prognosticated and their almost pathetic transparency. But at times of
my rare liberal strokes, I come to think of the natural workings of the
mind and the idiosyncratic human nature that contributes to the cause
of this stratification. After all people value things that look good
and, repel and reprobate things that aren t so easy on the eyes. Untouched
by many daily acrimonies I feel that I have at last come to know the
importance of one's appearance and its value.
Face Value© COPYRIGHT 2004 Romish Shrestha.
Reproduction prohibited without permission from the author.
08/18/04
