I have often wondered if all the attention one gets from having beauty, talent or intelligence can spoil ones soul and lead to grandiose delusions about human worth. Sometimes mediocrity can be a blessing because it allows growth of a more accurate self perception, intrinsically, within what you, yourself, values. Is Paris Hilton really happy? Is it really that fun to base your self worth on anything that isn't earned? The rules change so often and do we really pay attention? We reward worthless attractive people for their selfishness. We also reward talented heroin addicts for their brilliant albums. (Wow, we reward people for internal disease BUT THEY appear to be, what, is this success?) Now we have humble, real people walking around, healthy minds and souls. They are happy to avoid the spotlight. Is this a function of healthy behavior? Maybe those who yearn for the limelight (in some cases, not all) like those who end up in power, in control, on top, are ego impaired, unhealthy.
2007-05-19 05:25:18 · 9 answers · asked by DanaZ 3 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
Even despite heroin attics albums they have an actual talent they may have harvested in times of soberness and unfortunate circumstance that we can all relate to at times. paris Hilton is just a bored harlot.
If you think they are happy then it's a case of perspective. I don't think people like that live for happiness. They live for social obligation. To appease others, and to impress people they do not know. For money and the market.
I think it's quite easy to find contentment in a box. People only know value by comparison. They interpret value based on others. People want what ever you throw at them like starved dogs.
Society is a slave to the appeasement of the media. Before the newspaper they have small towns and gossip. We're always in search of prime survival. I don't think it can be found in mtv. I'm sure there are others like minded.
Attractiveness and social grace are important. No one wants to talk to ugly, unsociable people. It's just the way it is. But, every once and a while an ugly, unsociable person changes the world.
The tv is the electric bible and we all have our morals read by the newscasters who talk consistently about killings and rape and make a small 30 sec. bit about donating to charity. Like the book had any set morals anyway. Turn the other cheek and eye for an eye. It's all the same if they didn't exist.
It's impossible to divide the rich from the poor. The easily impressionable from the individualists. With all the globalization the stock man will have a hardon set for life and cryogenics after freeze.
2007-05-19 06:03:32 · answer #1 · answered by obscure 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know how old you are, but time and age is the great equalizer. Beauty may seem relevant to happiness to the young, but beauty fades. Social grace on the other hand is important throughout life. We must learn to play well with others at an early age and then do so throughout our lives. Otherwise we become cut off.
As for the culture of celebrity, well that hardly applies as examples (good or bad) for life. It's simply an entertaining diversion. It is fun to rag on celebrities with problems, feet of clay or to scratch our heads as to exactly how did this person become famous or admired.
Not 100% of the time, but in general, if someone is so good at what they do that they are at the top of their field and you have heard of them, then they likely have something the average person does not. Be it talent, brilliance, work ethic, beauty, luck, or any combination, they likely earned their place in some way. But not Paris Hilton.
2007-05-19 05:45:51 · answer #2 · answered by jehen 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no longer a lot less helpful. yet they're going to on an finished be a lot less efficient. Who needs to artwork with mingers, at the same time as they can encompass themselves with attractiveness? captivating human beings get instinctual preferential remedy from both captivating and by no potential so captivating human beings. they receives better opportunities, be paid better, have better acquaintances, and mainly get a leg up in existence that the gruesome munter gained't. Paris Hilton and so on are literally not dumb by technique of ways. they're very very smart manipulators. I propose - they're nicely worth tens of millions suitable, from their own wallet besides as wealthy mom and father. How demanding is it to make tens of millions? Feking demanding. EDIT Its no longer an opinion - its a documented actuality. there has been dissimilar study into the concern. suited human beings stay happier lives. Unfair i recognize.
2016-11-04 11:01:37 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No it is not true. A person may be a very physically attractive person, but still feel unfulfilled. Their outer beauty is all they have. As they grow older, and their beauty fades, they may feel as if they have no value.
A sense of happiness and satisfaction with our own body cannot come from attaining an unrealistic goal, but rather through self-acceptance. We should not judge ourselves based solely on our weight, dress size, or muscularity, but rather by our energy level, our emotional well-being, and our overall health and fitness. Beauty is not what is defined by the entertainment industry. Beauty is more than just a dress size or chiseled pecs and biceps. Beauty is health.
2007-05-19 06:32:00 · answer #4 · answered by Mike K 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think so.
Its all luck what you get and its quite obvious what youll turn out to be to the outsider who sees what you look and act like.
People who are prettier are accepted by society more readily.
People who are funnier are accepted by society more readily
People who are more thin are accepted by society more readly.
Life is all about the relationships you make and the less you have the less connected you will feel with others and therefore you will be less happy.
This is why we all want t obe thin, sexy, funny, and are miserable at times when we realise we cant have all these things without a price.
Celebs arent all that happy because they lose everything to look like they have everything.
2007-05-19 05:45:40 · answer #5 · answered by ramie box 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
once upon a time, worth of the individual was based more
on what he/she did for the community than how wealthy
the person was. then came fuedalism, I have the wealth I
have special priveledges you are dirt beneath me.
north america got away from hereditary nobility( third generation theives) but still worships money people seem
to think wealth confers worthiness on whoever has it.
sometimes worst wretch alive has lots of money
not one nickel makes him better but idiots are impressed by
the bling.
2007-05-19 05:46:13 · answer #6 · answered by wise old sage 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good thoughts you have there. What I know is , there are more ordinary people who are much happier than those who are well to do. I believe, judging from reports of drug addiction, drunkenness, divorces, legal battles, etc...the so called stars still have to earn the right to happiness. It comes easier with ordinary people.
2007-05-19 05:40:33 · answer #7 · answered by seeker 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wow, who determines how attractive you are? Good friends will stick with you through many but you have to understand that life is tough and complicated so I think you have pretty good questions and I have a very simple answer. Therapy
2007-05-19 06:41:15 · answer #8 · answered by xO Binhyy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nope. oprah isnt a model and yet shes a billionaire. bill gates does look like tom cruise and yet hes the riches man on the planet. hmmm... they both had a desire for wealh and making a better world.
2007-05-19 09:53:56 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋