In a fake world

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.