The reality of being overly goodlooking
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I really don't think the rich really have it that much better (unless you're dying from starvation and disease). Yeah, they're much more comfortable. Less stress? anxiety? depression? unhappiness? Nah...don't buy it. Buddha and Jesus have this one right.
The poor are also the more generous than the rich. A monk once said that a poor person gives a feast to a guest, while the rich man often gives but a cup of tea.
You will never convince me that the rich are happier overall than the poor. Every rich person I know (with one exception) live miserable, lonely and unfulfilled lives. They just have more comforts than their poor counterparts. As I said before, I can be very comfortable and very unhappy and be uncomfortable and very happy.
People are so disillusioned by money, beauty and fame. Shocked by some of the responses on here. Definitely a testament to the shallowness of the word we live in.
The poor are also the more generous than the rich. A monk once said that a poor person gives a feast to a guest, while the rich man often gives but a cup of tea.
You will never convince me that the rich are happier overall than the poor. Every rich person I know (with one exception) live miserable, lonely and unfulfilled lives. They just have more comforts than their poor counterparts. As I said before, I can be very comfortable and very unhappy and be uncomfortable and very happy.
People are so disillusioned by money, beauty and fame. Shocked by some of the responses on here. Definitely a testament to the shallowness of the word we live in.
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HAHA after they met they fucked and had 2 beautiful heaven sent children who loved to stare at themselves in the mirror like some other people Ive known do.:biggrin1:
I can't believe that you can get such heat because you don't like superficiality. But it doesn't surprise me in today's world. People will do anything to justify their love of money and beauty -- I mean "anything."
avalonlovelove
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sad but true man ive known a few who have done just that. I don't even get the plastic surgery thing where people feel they have to look or be perfect in everyway.Like Cher for example the girl was beautiful through and through in the beginning now I can hardly even recognize her its definitely a sad testament to things in this day and age.
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I couldn't find the smiley that portrayed my appreciation, though I wish it wasn't a race.
As you are, so I was; as I am, you will be. :wink:
Nobody can accept himself for who he is. Everyone always has to be in the process of changing something...never content...always searching...
The hardest thing to do in life is like what you have.
I was just born with a big peter. I don't pump...nor would I want penile implants to make it any bigger. :biggrin1: If I had had a smaller peter, I would have had to resort to another sexual fetish for fun.
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I'm not saying I don't believe rich people can be miserable. But I staunchly contend that rich, miserable, lonely and unfulfilled still beats poor, miserable, lonely and unfulfilled any day of the week. By a mile.
That sounds like a rich, beautiful, miserable person's perspective.
I can already see from the photos You've had in Your gallery that You're beautiful. Question is - are You rich and miserable too?
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For a lot of people, money brings more worries than it does happiness. One of my friends comes from old money, but didn't have much of his own until recently, when he came into a seven-figure inheritance. He now has sleepless nights over whether or not he's invested the money wisely and has fallen out with a lot of people because he suspects their motives. He was much happier before, when he was on a low income, but living comfortably.
I agree with what you said above. But that's not what we were really arguing: There are ugly, poor people in the world who are not miserable. It all depends on how you see your situation in life, or the reality you create for yourself.
Thank you for the compliment, by the way. That's very kind of you.:smile:
I'm not miserable (not fully enlightened, either:wink
, and I'm not rich (never wanted to be):biggrin1:. I just want enough money to have a clean, simple place to live, decent food to eat, travel and speak the languages I love. I just like clean, simple living.
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Interesting replies. I found as I grew older my idea of what is attractive broadened considerably. When I was much younger I had a "thing" for chiselled, blonde Scandinavian men but soon discovered that variety is the spice of life. I've met men who thought they were much better looking than they really were (to my eyes) and men who were heartbreakingly beautiful yet insecure or simply unaware of how attractive they were to others. Then there are the men who would not be considered conventionally attractive but exude confidence, down-to-earth charm, and are outrageously sexy as a result.
The image others project onto us or the one we perceive of ourselves is not always accurate. Sometimes we forget this when admiring someone's beauty and assume life is easy for them.
The image others project onto us or the one we perceive of ourselves is not always accurate. Sometimes we forget this when admiring someone's beauty and assume life is easy for them.
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well earl -
good thread.
being considered 'good looking' isn't all its cracked up to be according to my experience.
i have never considered myself attractive or good looking. to the contrary - i have spent my life feeling that i was never good looking enough. although having recently seen photos of myself from my early 20s up to a year ago, i think "huh? that's ME? I actually LOOK(ed) like that? and i felt badly about myself? What was my problem? I looked damned good, if I say so myself.".
People always carried on about my body or my eyes or something and told everyone they knew if i was going ot be at a party. the weird thing is while people always wanted to be around me, i couldn't figure out why.
i couldn't get jobs because of how i looked. One t.v. station exec. told me he wouldn't hire me to be an anchor man because i was "too good looking, that my looks would distract viewers from the actual news" that is a verbatim quote, i kid you not.
but also, people stayed away from me because they told me that they were 'intimidated by my looks" that they thought i was "unapproachable" and that i wouldn't want to talk to them.
I don't know. if people were angling to be around me to have sex with me or something, i was clueless and obtuse about it and was just happy (and surprised) people wanted to be around me.
In the end, what people thought about was just a hindrance to my career.
good thread.
being considered 'good looking' isn't all its cracked up to be according to my experience.
i have never considered myself attractive or good looking. to the contrary - i have spent my life feeling that i was never good looking enough. although having recently seen photos of myself from my early 20s up to a year ago, i think "huh? that's ME? I actually LOOK(ed) like that? and i felt badly about myself? What was my problem? I looked damned good, if I say so myself.".
People always carried on about my body or my eyes or something and told everyone they knew if i was going ot be at a party. the weird thing is while people always wanted to be around me, i couldn't figure out why.
i couldn't get jobs because of how i looked. One t.v. station exec. told me he wouldn't hire me to be an anchor man because i was "too good looking, that my looks would distract viewers from the actual news" that is a verbatim quote, i kid you not.
but also, people stayed away from me because they told me that they were 'intimidated by my looks" that they thought i was "unapproachable" and that i wouldn't want to talk to them.
I don't know. if people were angling to be around me to have sex with me or something, i was clueless and obtuse about it and was just happy (and surprised) people wanted to be around me.
In the end, what people thought about was just a hindrance to my career.
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You see THIS is exactly what I was referring to.There are people even within the gay community who act that way they dont want to have anything to do with someone unless they are good looking and kiss their ass.I find it pathetic and think anyone who wants to associate with men who act that way sadly have no self-respect for themselves or integrity.Men who act that way also have no respect for OTHERS .
If people can not look outside the box in this world then they will never discover whats inside.Looks fade personalities a persons pride self-respect and integrity though lasts forever .Those who look down on others based on something as petty and superficial as looks are the ones with the REAL problem :inside that is.
Have you ever purposly or unconsciously ever made yourself LESS attractive by wearing baggy clothes, getting fat, not getting a haircut or wearing an unflattering hat or glasses?
Nobody on earth is overly good looking. For example you see how George Cooney is supposely sexy right? Yet when he was on "Facts of Life" nobody gave a rats ass about him or his looks. You know why? Because he wasnt good looking then and he isnt good looking now.
Being on tv makes you look better apparently. Dressing like a whore makes guys lie and tell you that you look better. In reality there is only average looking people and fugly people. No great looking people exist.
Being on tv makes you look better apparently. Dressing like a whore makes guys lie and tell you that you look better. In reality there is only average looking people and fugly people. No great looking people exist.
