Fake Face to the World

The word “surviving” has changed meanings slightly over the years. In today’s world surviving doesn’t just deal with having food, clothing, and shelter, but another factor has been added. To survive you must be accepted into the “crowd” which isn’t as easy as it sounds. People today judge you from the first time they meet you and it usually isn’t by your personality. Today people judge you on how you dress and if you are “pretty” enough. So to be able to fit in this world of conceited humans, people have stopped being themselves and started living a lie. It is all about who has the latest fashion and who hides their true beauty the best by depending on their external beauty. People use this tactic of personal appearance appeal to gain friends, jobs, connections, and even to help with the dating realm. If you have to put on a face in front of your friends then it is not a true friendship because the other person really has no idea who you are. Today people will go to all measures to improve their personal appearance putting on a fake face to the world, just to be able to fit into the “crowd” of malicious, judging individuals.
To keep up the “perfect” personal appearance there are no lengths an individual won’t go to. I have known people to spend two thousand dollars on a purse or two hundred dollars on a new hair style and mind you these aren’t movie stars, these people are just ordinary people like you and I. The sad thing with this is that some people do not realize that they are doing it to fit in because they have been “brainwashed” into thinking that this is just the way things are. Either consciously or unconsciously they are doing it to be apart of the crowd. For some people this is how they were raised so they do not know the difference.
Spending lots of money on clothing, shoes, or accessories, spending hours at unnecessary nail and hair appointments, and even spending un-needed time putting on a “fake” face and smile with make-up are just some of the ways people have resorted to, to follow the crowd and be welcomed in. If only these people could understand that being happy in this world is as simple as having someone appreciates who you are without having to put on a face to have people like you.
It may seem like I am stereo-typing here saying that people who spend all this time and money on these things are all fake and hide their true selves, but that is not true. I am not saying that everyone who spends lots of money is someone who doesn’t show their true face, but the majority of people are. One of my best friends is someone who spends lots of money on things but it does not show in her personality and she is so surreal about everything.
I may be all wrong about all of this, maybe people who do live this lifestyle are truly happy but to me it seems that there is no way they could be because they are hiding the personality that makes them think the way they think and operate the way they do. If only the human race didn’t call for people to put on “a fake face to the world” to feel accepted. Maybe one day people will realize that going to the endless measures they do to feel accepted are not needed and that all is truly needed is not accept people for their personality and view of life.