&& btw i LOVE that postsecret.

For me, I look at all the wannabe/popular people and revel over how they just look that good because of a thousand little beauty enhancers. But at the same time, in my private moments I can’t help thinking about wearing fake lashes year-round too or ..getting up at 4 or 5 in the morning to beautify myself. Hahaha. The thought cracks me up.

The thing that I most identify with is the part about rolling up your jeans to fit your Asian legs. That cracks me up so much. No one else understands. But apparently you do! Chris and Em somehow don’t have to, because they’re 3s. But because of my thunder thighs I have to wear a 5, which I think are longer on the actual leg length? and I end up looking really disproportionate. I mean, even more.

I can’t believe that person who so openly condemn fat people. What is her problem? Does she think she’s going to be toned for the rest of her life or something? Either pregnancy or old age is going to catch up with her and she’ll know what it really means to not like yourself if her perception persists.

Perfect girl? No. Physically-attractive? Maybe yes.

As a man, that isn’t the kind of girl I aspire to be with. It isn’t even ideal. Every man probably has his own ideal woman but the stereotypical blonde bombshell is just a social myth created by Hollywood. At least that’s my opinion.

I understand what you’re trying to say about constantly feeling that something is wrong with you because I do feel that too. For me, it’s a self-esteem issue. The more I compare myself to others, the more I feel that I’m as fat and ugly as hell. That’s pretty inconvenient, so I try to expel such comparisons.

I just try to feel good in the things I wear and hold my head up high. I think it’s infectious. How you feel about yourself is somehow communicated to others by some odd chemical released by your body. Don’t you think?

But if you have to ask what I really think of myself, well, I have a disproportional body, a receding hairline, a flared tooth, a ton of facial scars, and a whole lot more unpleasant features. That description makes me look like some kind of monster but that’s why they say that your worst enemy is yourself. I guess that’s also why no man is an island because if I had to think about myself all day, I would probably have to go shoot myself…

…in the mirror that is. Haha, I’m not suicidal.

Self-perception is such a great topic because the whole civilized world is haunted by it. Beauty and vanity is so highly paid for by a lot of people nowadays that it’s simply ridiculous. Well, if those people died today, then all that self-improvement they spent on was useless.

By the way, I’m asian too.

You’re so very right. I have to say though that just acknowledging the aches and hunger and desolation present in the rest of the world and being “thankful” for what we have here in America (as Wil says) is not enough. NOT ENOUGH I TELL YOU!

Would it be enough to just ‘acknowledge’ that your ages mum is dying on her bed? No frkn way. Wil, get off your bum, take your pants off and give it to a poor kid down south who really could use it.