So I did an experiment personally to find out whether I am
just having a negative thinking or does the world is really after fakeness,
ignoring the reality and real beauty of things.
Every one of us has a habit of putting up the best pictures
on social media and then many of us receive friend requests and messages from
unknown people. Messages that have compliments, or requests for friendships, or
relationships, or sometimes even marriage. I have received many such requests
and messages as well. I must say people use social media pretty well these
days.
So the experiment was that I put up a profile picture of me
without makeup. A totally natural look. A picture I had taken right after
coming out of a spa after a cleansing treatment, so my face was extra clean. Honestly
I love that picture a lot as my skin is glowing and I look totally fresh but
well, I have no makeup in it. Not even a single trace of makeup, no fakeness,
at all. The picture was up for about three weeks and I didn’t receive a single
request or message during that tenure.
This confirmed my thought as to how attracted people are
towards fakeness. A person is considered beautiful and good only when he/she is
dressed up well and having a perfect appearance. People fancy celebrities so
much; people who are always having perfect makeup, and once they see a picture
of anyone without makeup the whole perception changes. The comments that are:
“Oh she is so amazing!”
“Oh look how pretty she is!”
“Wow! He is so hot!”
suddenly get changed based on one picture without makeup. The
comments that you hear then are:
“Eww, she is so ugly! How much makeup does she apply to look
pretty?”
“Eww, look at her dark complexion!”
“Eww, look how bad her eyebrows are!”
Let’s take another example. Sometimes, we don’t wish to eat
a specific food at home but when at a restaurant we would love to eat the same
thing because it ‘looks’ better. The garnishing suddenly makes the same food
seem tempting to our taste buds.
Let’s talk about words now. We get attracted to a person who
acts nice to us, pushing unwanted compliments our way, acting sweet to us. On the
other hand we run away from a person who would be brutally honest to us. Someone
who would honestly say if a dress is not looking good on us, if a hairstyle doesn’t
suit us.
Nothing really seems to be real in this world now. Where image
filters are boosting, the reality of life is being lost. People don’t wish to
see the real, don’t wish to hear the truth and hence don’t wish to be real as
well.