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Plastic Surgery

Almost 3 in 4 Thai women think that they are not pretty enough. Women considered pretty were splashed across billboards, promoting women to wish to look like them, attain that body and face as what others perceive as beautiful. When they cannot lose weight or really cannot stand the way they look, plastic surgery becomes the easiest way out, or the only way out.

Now, plastic surgery can be made available to any man on the street. However, I think the number of people considering plastic surgery as an option has failed to see beyond what plastic surgery is all about. They think that plastic surgery is about beautifying themselves, but it is actually shows a lack of self-confidence, because they are not confident of what they are born to look like, and seek means and ways to alter what they have.

1 in 5 girls consider plastic surgery. More and more teenage girls are exposed to media and they feel that only by attaining the stick thin figure they see on the television is beautiful. Their misconception of beauty arose because technological advancements have made possible to make a size 6 look like a size 2. they want to look like Rain, single eye-lidded. They want to have high noses and flat tummies. If they have been confident of how they look like and accept it, plastic surgery would not have crossed their minds.

Rising affluence meant the increase in demand for plastic surgery. With this huge increase in demand, more money is pumped into developing more advanced plastic surgery procedures, and at the same time these advances eventually driving down the cost of plastic surgery. We can never fully abolish plastic surgery in the world today simply because it is becoming more convenient and meeting a higher demand. Once man is exposed to something he can exploit and make him look better, he will never give it up.

Plastic surgery makes some look beautiful, but have the people considered those surgeries that failed? Why aren’t they reconsidering their decision to go under the knife? This is because these failures are not publicized. The public do not know enough of the dangers. They fail to see what plastic surgery does to us, if the whole world takes plastic surgery like a meal. Everyone can be replicas of each other. If you’re black, you can be bleached white. We are losing ourselves in the pursue of the so-called beauty. We will lose our culture, our character and our resilience to not succumb to what others consider to be handsome and good-looking enough.

Seriously, who is the one that considered Rain to be good-looking? If there was no ugly, will there be beauty?


Child Prostitution

The figures are staggeringly frightening. The age of the average child prostituted gets younger and younger. In the world we claim to be educated, why are we allowing the animal in us to make others in the world suffer? We are taking advantage of the poverty in Africa, reducing them to suffer in the endless vicious poverty cycle. Child prostitution has been a cause that many have been fighting for, and have succeeded to only a small extent.

www.lightamillioncandles.com achieved its goal of getting 1 million candles ‘lighted’, in less than 60 days. We can see that people around care for these victims, but much more needs to be done. We need to implement stricter rules enforcements on the law breakers; the demand has to be greatly reduced for the syndicate to break. It is because of the high demand, leading to the high numbers of children prostituted. The largest culprit, USA, should place stricter laws, put focus on a problem that is affected the whole world. If they are already doing something, they need to know it is not enough.

We need to educate the masses to teach them how cruel child prostitution is. Even after these victims are rescued, they need a long time, or probably forever to get over what they have been through. Others will never understand the way they feel; they are the ones that were forced against their will to do things they never wanted, tricked and manipulated into the sex trade. The world needs to know, and protect their children against this trade. Poor people should get help, instead of selling their children off as their only resort. Other countries should provide help, no matter how small, it all comes together to form a loud voice, Stop. They need our money, but more importantly, they need our support.

posted by GRACECHIA @ 9:01 PM