Everyone would like to look good (handsome, pretty) because we want people who look at us to be OK with our appearance.

Women, in general, can enhance their looks with cosmetics (which are in abundance) for their faces, hair, hands, and so forth.

The big cosmetic companies, knowing very well about the desire of women to look great, have produced thousands of products that they convince women (and men too), via Madison Avenue, that they must have in order to look acceptable to other people. So actually they are brainwashing people to buy their products.  And the cost of these products is quite expensive, but the ego is more important to most people than the money.

Men, on the other hand, want to look OK, but usually they are more interested in improving their bodies by doing all kinds of physical exercise to build up their muscles so they can be proud of them.

Everything we do in this aspect is nice and dandy, but…

The problem resides in the fact that people are somewhat critical of those who may have a blemish or something that is not to their liking.  People somehow blame the not-so-good-looking, as if they could change the way they look.

The reality is that people’s appearance is strictly genetic.  The way we look is given to us.  We have no control over it whatsoever. So to blame or criticize someone for something over which they have no control is not only absurd, but cruel.