It has been noticed that there are more and more teenagers signing up to become members of fitness centers and slimming centers. This is to keep themselves fit and slimmer. There are two groups of teenagers doing this, the females and the males.
The female group of people believes that only by looking or being slim can they look good. An example provided by the article spent 600 dollars on losing 4 kg and up to half of her salary on beauty products and treatments.
The other example in the article, a male, signed up to become a member of a fitness center in order to look and feel confident. This was achieved by building on his biceps and chest muscle, making them more “noticeable”. This is as he felt that after becoming fitter he was not as shy as before and was treated better due to him becoming more attractive, according to the person interviewed.
After reading the article, I realized that teenagers nowadays cared a lot about their appearances. They go to a long and expensive extent to make themselves look good and most importantly, feel good.
Why is it important to look good and feel good about oneself? It is the thing that makes us able to feel a sense of satisfaction and achievement after doing something good. Moreover, feeling confident is the key to doing and making things we do successful.
The idea of being vain to get confidence and looking good has its strengths. You are able to feel good by looking good and this can be achieved quickly. This is helpful in situations such as giving a talk because just by tidying up one’s appearance, he would be able to gain a little more attention and confidence.
However, I feel that it is not good to gain confidence by paying money, especially so for teenagers. This is as we as teenagers change quickly and one cannot guarantee that he will look the same forever, being fit now does not mean you will look as muscular next time. If one gets his confidence from looks, does that mean that he will have no confidence next time?
Actually, I do feel for those who try to get confidence through being vain and looking good. Sometimes, it is just very hard to get the confidence from yourself. Also sometimes, we might feel that we do not look good enough because we are born like this.
When this happens, tell yourself that this is what makes you unique and different from others, and then you will feel good about yourself and love your looks. This is just one way out of the many others I do not know to make one happy.
Personally, I feel that people have rights to be vain sometimes however, they should know when to stop, because it is not how you look, but what you do and how you treat others that would leave a mark in peoples’ memories.
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