Writing in your Journal Assignment for “The Beguiling Truth about Beauty” By Carlin Flora
Pages 442-446
1. In paragraph 5, Flora says “Our brains have a built-in hot-or-not meter that never stops gathering data.” Is this statement true for you? Explain.
I’m afraid that I have to say yes to that. I think that the ‘meter’ works in my brain quite a bit more than it should. There are some days that I feel like I am pretty, but those days seem to be far and few between lately. I am absolutely terrible at comparing myself to others! I try to remind myself that every single person is completely different and therefore honestly not in any way comparable to myself, yet I do it anyway. Self-image and self-confidence are things that society really struggles with in the world today. Media has brought the ‘expectations’ of beauty higher than it has been before and men and women everywhere are finding it hard to measure up. I am affected by this like everyone else, but I find myself affected more by the people around me. I feel that I have to make up for my lack of physical attraction by my skills to get attention. How I feel about myself seems to greatly depend on what happens each day. The most important thing I am learning is that it is who you are that makes the difference, not how you look, and that it is also important not to let the ‘hot-or-not meter’ take control of your life. How you feel about yourself is a choice. I am trying hard to be happy no matter what other’s opinion of me is or what I think the hot-or-not meter says.
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