How can we assume humans are the hieght of intelligence when they cannot even think for themselves? What most humans define as thiking for themselves is what fashion they choose to be a slave to. Be it Dior, Armani or some other designer. What we like is decided for us befor ewe are even born. Befre egg and sperm join our culture decided what was and wasn't alright for us.1
If we do not follow these rules, visible only on the airbrushed pages of magazines, then society rejects us as they would reject a sick dog. Different is, metaphorically, deadly.2
Sit beside a stranger at a movie theater and the stranger will be uncomfortable. Why? Becase society tells us that strangers are dangerous and we are a stranger to them as they are to us. And not only do you seem dangerous because you are strange, you are dangerous because you are not afraid of them.3
If humans were truly as intelligent as we think they are, then why do we have as many problems as we do?4
Instead of accepting themselves, there are people who are starving themselves to death to look like someone else. They undergo surgeries such as rhinoplasy, or, as its most commonly known, a nose job, to look more like their image of perfect"5
THERE IS NO PERFECT! What one perosn loves in entirely different to another person. Perfect is an illusion, it cannot be set, it cannot be purchased, it cannot be achieved. Perfect is an idea created by the media and the fashion industry to make us support them. 6
Until Humanity as a whole realizes this then we will be stuck on the bottom level of intelligence.7
I ask you, as the one reading this, who do you want to be? What is your perfect? I know you have one, everyone does. They can lie, they can hide it but its always there. 8
Who do you think for, who thinks for you? What is PERFECT? Tell me in a day, a week, take as long as you need. 9
As of now, 2008 AD, the statement "I am ____" is filled in with an adjective. Maybe one day it can be filled with a pronoun, maybe one day we can say "I am ME"
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I am giving this to my Psychology teacher, not as an assignment, I wrote it when I was bored but this is how I see humanity much of the time. I write this both as a human and an observer.
Please, in comments answer the question as you see fit, do take as long as you need, but I want to see your answers
So go ahead...fill in the blank
I am ________
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I am...proud to be human.
Yes you talk about how we want to be perfect in looks and style and do whatever people who are more beautiful than us do.
But I guess I'm kind of proud to be human. You've got my gears turning, and thanks for entering! -
I am...
genuinely interested in the lives of others. People fascinate me.
Regarding fashion and labels? Hmmmm...well, that's "plumage" for us human animals and is used to attract a mate. The right labels are the right "colors" that send the message of suitability as a mate. It signifies economic prosperity, that new age hallmark of virility in the human animal. I don't agree with it but that's the way our sexual culture is structured.
The movie theater thing? Again, a function of the human animal. The survival instinct. The survival instinct tells the animal not to let anyone whose intentions are unknown within striking proximity. Within arm's length an assailant can act faster than you can react with reflex. The human animal knows this and hence maintains that arm's length to satisfy the demands of the survival instinct. The movie theater seat is not arms length and there are some real loonies out there. It also depends on who you are. A woman is more prone to be afraid, a man, not so much.
Since when has intelligence guaranteed a lack of problems? Unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. There is a chasmic divide between intelligence and the will and wisdom to use it to fruition.
Regarding accepting oneself? I agree one hundred percent. We really have no choice in the matter, we are who we are. Maybe I'll be better tomorrow, but I don't live in tomorrow, I live in today and today I'm just damned skippy as I am. Nose job, schmose job. People gotta get over it. Sarah Jessica Parker has a gigantic nose and she is beautiful.
You keep tying this all into intelligence but I don't concur. We know what we need to do, we simply lack the will to exercise our intelligence to betterment in spite of the contraventions of our bass-ackwards culture. A culture that is designed to sabotage the spirit and then sell it healing balm in the form of exorbitantly priced material goods and services. Intelligence is not the problem in my opinion, so I must disagree with your premise.
Who do I want to be? The best me I can be. Will that be perfect? Not for quite some time. But as long as I'm moving in the right direction I'm happy. And no slick magazine is gonna tell me otherwise. Perfection is totally relative, as it measurement. There is always a higher standard to attain. Satisfaction comes only to those happy in the here and now. Those who relegate satisfaction to the future will never have it.
I think for me, cuz I'm the boss of me.
Good write but I found the reasoning a little sloppy as it could stand to be tightened up a little. It's a bit rambling. I enjoyed the sentiments but the observations were all status quo, I kept wanting to see something new and exciting and found neither. Try finding a different viewpoint on the same subject rather than adopting the classic views on these issues of perfection and acceptance. I've read it all before. Try a new point of view. -
I am me i will never be exactly like others. I may share intrests with others but i will never look or seem like anyone else.
who i am is my perfect as you say perfect is an illusion and so are those who appear in your mind to be so.
Perfect was once a description to encourage people to be at a sertain standard but all that has changed.
My perfect is more like a goal as i want to be like others(meaning companions) while i want to be special(different by talent)
Gah!! where all the stuff above came from i'll never know but anywy i agree with ya lol if ya write anything else tell me or just pop by and see what ya think or some stuff i wrote..
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I know where all the stuff came from. I got you thinking and when anybody does that to anybody then you suddenly realize things you never had before. I wrote this after my first psychology class, my teacher made me think and this is what came to mind.
Thankies for the applause and for reading it!!
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"Have no fear of perfection; you won't reach it."- Salvador Dali
And about me- I am not what I am. And what I am not, that is precisely what I am.
Nice article. I guess we can all give it a thought. And yes, as the other person also noted- please correct those typos.
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First off, you made great points, but you need to do some editing. The little mistakes you made peeved me a bit.
But it DOES get me thinking... Who do I think for? Sadly, I tend to think for those who want answers from me, my teachers, my friends, my family... For the rest of my time, I think for myself, no one else. I think about things like this.
Perfect is nothing. Perfect is fake, in my eyes, but that's probably because the example of perfection is always hiding a box of ugly lies.
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First I must say that I LOVE your face picture, I've read all the twilight books and do plan to see the movie.
My apologies about typos, I'm not so good when I'm in a hurry and it seems like I always am.
Thank you for reading the story, I think its only polite to thank everyone who reads my stories and I also thank you for taking the extra time to answer the question at the end. I was afraid people wouldnt answer it.
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While I see what you mean, I think your example is too narrow to really address the problem. Considering how short you made it, however, the point is quite well-argued.
MY PERFECT: Anyone who can meet people who are as freaky as I am and get to really know them and still never back down.
I AM:
-lost in a repeating pattern-
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Yeah, it was supposed to be longer but it was originally on paper and I ran out
I'd love to get to know you, if that didn't come out making me sound like a perv, that is =)
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Getting to know me, huh? All I can say is, good luck lol
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I am unique
Hehe, this is great, really nicely written. I admitt that I feel the same way most of the time. And sadly my sister is a hostage to the designer 'it' crowd and she's only 12. I hate it. I do my own thing. -
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I understand your sister, I was like that when I was 12. 6th grade was miserable for me because I lways wanted to fit in and I lived in Florida, on the rich part of the beach and I WASNT rich (long story). I couldnt afford all the fancy clothes, I wasnt allowed to wear makeup or dye my hair. All my money went to the best clothes I could get so I could never get the music I really liked, go out to the resteraunts I REALLY liked. I was a complete slave and realized it in 9th grade, so I was miserable for a long time.
What it took to open up my eyes was my writing. I loved writing about vampires and it labled me a freak (which my slave mind absolutely hated) but I loved writing so much I suddenly didnt care what the writing labled me as. And not caring about that slowly made me realize I didn't have to care about the teasing or the cruelty of other students.
8th grade would never have seen me wear a frock coat toschool , but 9th grade sure did. And I realized then that I COULD think for myself.
I'm not perfect, I know that, I still read the fashion magazines (hey, SOME of that stuff is nice, but I really hate abercrombie) And I still look at which singers are at the top of the charts (no knocking Rihanna) But I don't HAVE to live my life by that stuff and its so liberating to know that now.
My advice to your sister, find something of her own she loves so much that no one elses opinions can distract her from it. And after awhile she'll probably come around the same way I did.
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It is all too true, sadly.
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you were supposed to answer the question, di.
But thanks for reading it
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