Totally Ordinary

One time I watched American Beauty at Netflix.

Well it was a very good movie with non-cheesy conversation and impressive story line.

But that's not what I want to talk about.

In the movie, there is one girl (very beautiful) named Angela Hayes. And there is this another girl named Jane Burnham (not as pretty as Angela physically, always dressed in Gothic style). Both of them are best friends.

Jane Burnham has a boyfriend name Ricky.

Angela is a kind of girl that looked very pretty outside. Pretty in a common general way people will accept. An American standard of beauty. She's also a bit too much into her look. Care too much about appearances.

On the other hand, Jane has a unique style. She dressed like she wants and not following that beauty standard. And that's what Ricky admired, I guess.

One day in a fight conversation between the three of them, Angela said that Jane is weird and ugly. Ricky defended Jane by saying, in his opinion Angela is totally ordinary and boring, unlike unique Jane. Well, Angela was devastated because nobody wants to be ordinary and boring.

Every girls wants to be pretty. They do everything to look pretty. Eyelashes extensions, whitening injection, overpriced face treatment, some treatment that I do not know what the name about their eyebrow, etc. etc. etc. Some girls even going too far by doing breast augmentation or facial surgery.

I also want to look pretty, I use face cream, nice organic shampoo, and other things as well.

But I do not want to put 'appearance' as my ultimate life goal and the 'first thing makes me happy' thing. I do not want to be that superficial.

Appearances will fade away by time. It is a definite thing, just a matter of time.
No matter how pretty you are, or how stylish you are, you can deny the aging.
So do not depend your happiness into it.

On the other hand, knowledge will remain much longer. It never boring. Read a lot so you will have something interesting to say. Learn a lot of different things so you will have broad and wide perspective. Have you own style, be unique. Not be a girl with common beauty standard.

And you will not be that ordinary, boring girl. And that is beauty.