plastic?

so, the other day, i went to catch 200 pounds beauty with le boyfriend. and i do see some resemblance between the female lead and a person i used to know. some screen shots were just uncanny, leading me to think whether the female lead herself went under the knife. but both le boyfriend and i think that the female lead looks much prettier and more natural.

and the other day, i went out with a group of friends to ktv, during which we were analyzing throughout the mtvs whether the singer underwent surgery to enhance his or her looks.

not that there's anything wrong with going for surgery. seriously, i have nothing against it. i won't go for it though. i'm already thankful for my looks, contented to say the least. i don't need to enhance them to increase my confidence in myself. in fact, sometimes my confidence scares me. but that's not really the point. of course, not many people share the same view that going for plastic surgery shows a lack of confidence. that is just my own point of view and not going for it (as of now) is just my personal stand.

the next question after undergoing surgery would be, when and how do you know that you are good-looking enough? and good-looking enough for who and for what?

of course, not everyone who undergoes plastic surgery has the guarantee that they will look better than what they were. a good example of that would be... michael jackson?

i guess, plastic surgery is not like saying, i don't feel like wearing this shirt any more and then proceeding to throw it out. it's also not like putting on make-up and dyeing your hair. to make that analogy would be committing the fallacy of the slippery slope together with the straw man fallacy. at the end of the day, the make-up will have to be removed and the dye will wear out. but plastic surgery is something that you have to live with for life. it takes a bigger commitment than marriage, because even in marriage if you end up hating your partner, there is still the option of divorce. painful and troublesome and heart-breaking, yes. but at least there is the option. but there is no divorce option in plastic surgery. then how? then what?

sure, you may be better-looking than what you were last time... so was that your comparison? if it was, then doesn't that make the whole situation sadder? to me, it doesn't really justify the necessity of it all. sure, you may be prettier than the rest of your peers, but will you ever be contented? or will you be looking at the mirror, thinking of new ways to enhance and improve and even modify your looks? or will you spend the rest of your life worrying whether your new face will fall apart?

i think it all boils down to the question of, who are you competing against? like i said once, and i will say it again, life is never about competition. it's about yourself. which means, it's about contentment, isn't it? if you undergo the knife, it just means you weren't contented being who you are. you wanted something more, and you will always want something more than what you already have. so the question then would be, when do you stop? when do you know when is enough? and how do you know if it ever will be enough? and then, how do you know that it will get you what you really want?