Posted on 11/28/2004 9:25:13 AM PST by GOPologist
ATLANTA--Good-looking people get all the breaks--including the ultimate one. Now there's evidence they live longer, too.
Well, one thing I like is the fact I don't have to worry about losing my looks.
And just as likely is that we find symmetry attractive, people who are symmetrical tend to have less health problems because everything is in proportion.
Which would also explain the slightly higher death rate among people that the camera loves. They are actually not symmetrical but the camera distorts so people who are non-symmetrical appear to be and people who are appear not to be.
I'm screwed ... (again)
Preach on! It still urks me that Captain Worksheet next door makes twice as much as I do just because he's been there longer. I'd give anything to see the system go to merit-pay and ditch seniority altogether...
Just out of curiousity, who were they?
Does this mean I will die of old age at 40?
I can't remember what I look like since mirrors always seem to shatter in our house. Instead, I rely on the shrinking recoil from children and the looks of pity or horror in the eyes of adults to tell me how I'm lookin' on any given day.
Dogs like me, though.
On the upside given this article, Michael Moron must be whistling past the graveyard . . .
As I recall, Nick Romano (Knock on Any Door) said: "Live fast, die young, and leave a beautiful corpse!"
Courtney Love, Jude Law, Keanu Reeves, and Jason Alexander. Courtney looks as awful as her pictures, Jason looks as... well... like he looks, and the other two seem not to need any camera tricks to get women.
57 years old and she is still ticking.
i dunno. i have won numerous awards and contests OUTSIDE MY DISTRICT, and i have to say, all it's done for me is make my peers insanely curious over MY schedule and MY equipment, as if that is the key to success and even though i have less equipment and a stiffer schedule.
the territorial jealousy among high school teachers is extraordinary. some of those lazy butts wouldn't go an extra mile if they HAD to...however we just got a new principal this year, and MAN is it a scream-- the stuff people are doing to get his attention...pretending they always have always sent out chatty helpful newsletters, been pleasant to other staff, and have always done a GREAT job. once things settle down, they will get back to their crappy selves again.
the key to it all is the acquisition of power.
it's not the amount of equipment you have---it's the opportunities you create for kids.
it's all about kids. that's what so many educators miss. bummer.
Could it be that those concerned about their looks especially being fit exercise more?
Courtney Love won't live long, her brain is already too fried for any rational thought.
Yeah, Courtney's scary. She was kind of heavy when I saw her, and at first I thought she was a crack-ho. I mean, seriously. I was on Sunset Boulevard and this woman was going into a liquor store in a dress that looked like the top had been torn to shreds. More of her bra was visible than her dress. She had some back fat too. Her hair was all bleached blond and straw-like. Her skin is very white. Lipstick very red. And she was buying a pack of cigarettes. It was a minute before I recognized her. She's taller than I thought.
What's the revelation?
Healthy people look better than when they are unhealthy. It's not that some people are beautiful and some people are ugly inexorably, fatalistically. Most people have acceptable, normal looks -- but a person really healthy and living right looks good. People who feel bad and aren't living right look bad. It's not relevant to compare oneself to any other; but it does matter greatly how much one's well-being or lack of it, alters their looks.
A lot of ugly people will insist that since they are ugly, they must be smart -- but you don't know how much smarter and better looking that same person would be if they were in their healthiest condition. The fact that they don't look good is generally an expression of their fundamental health and therefore outlook on life. Beauty is not only in the eye of the beholder but is also a statement of one's mind.
Unpleasant people are usually unattractive. Wholesome, gregarious people are usually attractive. What's troubling is that we live in a culture that compartmentalizes, fragments and denies our total comprehension -- and so we think good looking people are just good looking and manic-depressives must be brilliant because nobody can understand their tortuous explanations, excuses and alibis.
The reality is that healthy looking people are usually functioning at their best and people who don't look so good aren't. That should not be a mystery requiring "lavishly-funded exhaustive further studies," as the grant writer would have us believe.
Usually, what you see is what you get. The exceptions are not the rule -- yet a few spend most of their time and energy trying to convince us that what is true is not and vice versa. The people promoting this cognitive dissonance usually try to rationalize that good looks come only from plastic surgery and vanity. By far, most good looks are just the normal process of being in good health.
There's no great revelation here. So if you don't like the way you look, get yourself into better health and condition. Don't be like these bitter and resentful people who can only make a living trying to tear down everybody else for being normal, healthy and happy people -- like we see so often in the media.
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