Who are you?

Today, I went for my daily dose of youtube. You know how it is. One vids lead to another. After getting lost in the philosophical section, you know, those vids that makes you think, it boils down again to the question, Who am I? Seriously, the way you define yourself gets you in that mindset. So in a way, if you said bad things about yourself, then you are cursing yourself. Not defining yourself is also bad. You wouldnt be able to define whats wrong and whats right. What I mean is that for example, if you say that you are a good person, to you stealing is bad, but its not the case for a person who defines himself as a bad person. If you say that stealing is bad, then consider Robin Hood. Is he bad? This makes me comes to a conclusion. Given enough justification, whats right can be wrong and whats wrong can be right. Anyway, back to the question. Who are you? are you that person who always smile? Are you that person who likes coffee? How you define yourself is as good as setiing your future. Thats why most of self improvement courses deals with the removal of you negative thought process.

Anyway, the vid that I was watching is about eating disorders that is called anorexia and bullimia. At first thought, they are alike, but from what I have seen the diffrence lies in the purging. While anorexics binge and purge(not that purge spell in warcfart dummy, but vomitting out foods that are already ingested) almost immidiately, while bullimics sometimes took diffrent measures to lose the calories, like fasting the next day or excersising too much in the next day.

Another problem anorexia and bullimia pose is fertility. 30% of ex anorexics have fertility problem even if they gained their weight back. Also, by constantly dieting, the body is put on a strain and it wont be healthy enough to keep pregnancy. So, is it worth it?


In one of the vids, I saw this writing, "Beauty Magazines promotes low self esteem". I pondered on what it means for a bit. I think what they are trying to say is that beauty magazines defines beauty in such a way thats very hard for a person to achieve. Examples, beauty is always associated with thin. Thats not the case in my opinion. Your body shape doesnt determine your beauty. Well, I often like to diffrentiate between the term beautiful and pretty. I always use pretty to describe excellent physical attibutes and beautiful to describe the fullness of the inner self. So, what those mags are trying to do is just define pretty. Not beauty.

Those beauty magazine tells you lots of things to make you pretty, not how to make you beautiful.

It makes me remember in more thing. One of Dave Schapelle's routine says that chivalry is dead and women kills it. Chivalry is about treating a person like he/she is suppose to be treated. He goes on and explain it by an example. Supposedly you walk down a road wearing a police uniform, even though you are not a police and a burglary in a shop happens. If the shopkeeper spots you, naturally he will ask for your help, because you look like a police officer. Moral of the story is if you dont want to be treated like a police, dont wear a police uniform. Similarly, if you dont want to be treated like an idiot, dont dress like one. If you start giving attitude on how people are leering at you beause you dress to attract, its just plain stupid. Dont you get it? Sometimes they are enjoying a freak show. My point is, dress decently. Stereotypes are everywhere. Even though sometimes we dont want to admit it, its there.

Well, as they always say, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. To me, everyone is beautifully unique. I wont find another me, just like you wont find another you.

OK then. See ya later. Have a good night.


JBU