Intense psychological thinking. HAHAHAH

Sh*t I've been saying.

"I am eating too much!"
"I am not working out enough!"
"I am not studying enough!"
"I am lazy!"
"I am messy!"

Some of you may agree with these statements, some may not. But let me get overly psychological on you.

So why do I think these things? Well, because I have been eating too much. How do I know this? Well... I don't look fatter. I have gained 2 pounds, but that could be anything. I think I have been eating too much because... I am eating more then usual? Well, maybe I was eating too little then and I am eating an average amount now.

So really... why do I think I am eating too much? Well. I believe (and many psychologists believe) that we learn things and form opinions based on everything else around us. So, we take life experiences, and what people say to us to form opinions and ideas. Well, since people around me are eating LESS then me, I feel I am eating too much.


Same with I am not working out enough. This is a mix of some people working out more around me, but more from feeling the pressure of having to be perfect.

"I am not studying enough" is the best example of hearing people say things and feeling like I am not studying enough. Like how people are like "I studied 5 hours last night" or I read somebodys twitter that says "Studying...." or someones facebook. And I automatically think I need to study at least as much as them. Also, this connects to the idea that everybody wants to be "better" then everyone else.


In family studies we were talking about this in someone's seminar. How people compare themselves to others and they constantly are like "Am I fat?" "Am I pretty?" and the teacher said her daughter once said "I am pretty right?" and her mom answered "Yes! of course!" and her daughter responded "But I am the PRETTIEST, right?". Her mom had to explain to her no, she is not prettier then everyone else in the world.

Well... really. Nobody is prettier then the next person. Society and some science has distorted our ideas of the "perfect" person.
Guys want waists so small and hips so large that women physically cannot have children.
Girls want hair so perfect that they are willing to spend insane amounts on hair products and risk the protection of their hair by dying it and using straightners and curlers.

I can really go on forever with this. But basically, society expects guys to be buff and girls to be skinny. BUT MY QUESTION IS WHY.

I had this one assignment once and we were talking about beauty in other cultures. Some cultures find fat women beautiful. So why do they think fat people are pretty, and why do we think skinny people are? Well.. some distorted groups in society. Probably mostly media, because the cultures that like "fatness" are more destitute in money, so being fat means you have more food and you are maybe, richer. In our society its hard to resist things like candies and being lazy, so its harder for us to be skinny then fat.

Maybe thats why? But then... how does that affect attraction?

I am going to stop this thought now because I can literally go on for hours.

Well... Goodnight :)

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