Weight and Beauty

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"In the past couple of decades,"

Deborah Carr discusses how important your perceptions/opinions of your physical appearance can affect your life later on. As disturbing as this may be, I can see some truth in this. Concerning the weight of women, Carr puts forth the information that women who have a normal weight in their adolescence will have a higher self esteem than women who were heavier. I see this in my cousins all the time. They are working now and high school is a distant memory for them now. But I have cousins who were popular and very pretty in high school act with confidence than the ones who were not as attractive.

I think it has to do with the fact that the successful people we see are usually attractive. Senators are usually classically, American-ly handsome. Their wives are usually pretty country club women. Celebrities function on their physical appearances and powerful people usually look decent. We don't see ugly people getting rich, getting good jobs, getting happy lives. Sure, it happens but we don't see it. 

Looks in high school can be everything. Scratch that, they are everything. You can be smart, you can be talented, you can be funny but it comes down whether or not if your face is pleasing to look at that decides how people like and treat you. Pretty girls, even if they're dumber than the gum on my shoe, get placed on a pedestal and if they do something wrong people always fondly sigh and say, "at least she's pretty." Boys can be jerks and still have the smartest girls in school swooning because they know how to give a killer grin. If your thin, people compliment your clothes more, remind you how good your figure is. 

That's the way the system goes. It wasn't meant to be like that but looks are something you either got or don't got and in high school it can make or break you. No wonder why the stings of high school linger for so long.