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Published Tuesday, July 05, 2005 by p-h-i-l | E-mail this post

Had watched MTV's 'I want a Famous Face' program the other day. Its a show documenting teenagers going for plastic surgery to supposedly enhance their look. The matter of fact that they look pretty okay to me, but still wanting artificial enhancements are pretty ridiculous. Not only would the unimaginable long hours on that surgery table would had already caused shivers, but the fact of waking up the day after and staring into the mirror helplessly, just to see another person staring back would had caused an unsensational feeling of just being another lost person searching for happiness in this big, big world.

Plastic surgery has already been a norm for our society. It was then, when plastic surgery was all so vile and rejected by society. And probably the only artificial enhancements seen commonly on women then was to their bosoms. Or, was it just Baywatch that portrayed that? With all due respect to the womens, I don't mean to be offensive.

Somehow, this new method of making everyone lookin like the next Britney Spears or Ricky Martin, has altered people's perception. It seems, since we can correct what we thought God did wrong, we are now incontrol of any situations. I, personally have nothing against plastic surgery, especially if it is so needed by an accident victim, or a deformed person. My only objection seem to be to those that already has a beautiful image in its own unique way. An originality that ourselves are trying to alter and rob.

Listening to Louie Giglio's 722 conference on 'image' , it spoke of mankind's fascination of trying to brand everything. Taking just an ordinary black handbag and placing a 'Prada' squared tag to it would insanely increase the value. Either tag-ed with a 'Prada' or not, both serve it's same purpose, but valued so differently. And here we are, a product of God, branded by God, valued at the highest price, made individually one by one by the creator of the world, and we try to un-tag ourselves from the brand attached to us. Tryin to tag ourselves with a different brand than what that is already the brand of the highest value. Trying to copy the brand of another.

At the end of the day, no plastic surgery would hold, no silicons will last, no physical beauty would remain, the aging process is inevitable. We shall grow old, and beauty would slowly be lost in time. But one beauty shall remain. God's creation of our inner most being shall last for an eternity. What truely matter is everlasting, and cannot die or weaken. A bright, joyful spirit attracts more than the sher beauty that meets the eye. Often quoted, 'beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder', and its true. To just indulge in physical beauty is shallow indeed, when real beauty does not stare you in the eye but warms the heart.

There is more to life indeed. A beautiful life goes further than a beautiful face. To continue from where i started, and to end all my thoughts, the question remains whether a new, famous face is what we need, or could it be a new, bright, joyful heart that is needed to find happiness. At the end of the day, all of these are in search for happiness, isn't it?

In my last attempt to end, I shall quote something I've heard over and over again, "You are born an original, Don't die a copy". If only we could understand, we can then say, 'No, not a famous face please, but a famous heart'. Perhaps one day we would. Perhaps.

**just a boring thought, and apologies for wasting ur time reading this. enjoy.