The World of Advertising

I'm supposed to be in class right now but it's cancelled so I want to hurry and get my thoughts out before I forget which is a fear of mine. If you read my first blog, you would see that I wrote about confidence boosters and how it is nice to hear compliments every once in a while. But are the compliments we hear what we truly want to hear? Or is it based upon a judgement or the way we look or act that certain day to determine if we get a compliment? If that is the case then maybe we are all just trying too hard and we should start pleasing ourselves.

When I went out to eat with my friend last night, we parked across the street from an ice cream parlor. This place has been there for as long as I can remember but now they have huge signs on the outside advertising sundaes, italian ices, root bears floats and more. Are you getting hungry yet? When I saw them, I immediately felt a craving for ice cream because the pictures looked great. Good advertising or better ice cream? Even though the ice cream tastes the same and I know this, I felt more of a desire to get some.

I went back to Dunkin Donuts this morning to get a coffee roll (I skipped the coffee) and the same lady that lights up when she sees me didn't recognize me at first glance. Then when she looked back up, she said "No blue eye Shadow today?" I responded with a "no, not today" and then she smiled back and said "Blue eye shadow makes you more beautiful." Now, maybe I am analyzing this too much which I often do but does blue eye shadow honestly make a person more beautiful? Like in life, a person often needs to see what they like in order to buy a particular product so good advertising becomes essential. In this case, my usual compliment turned to advice on makeup. I wasn't sold.

Does this change anything? No it doesn't because I don't need someone to look at me and tell me that I can look more beautiful if I do something different. I'm sure if it was easy to get looks or compliments from others, many people wouldn't try harder to look a certain way. It's a vicious cycle. There are many people however who do see the beauty in you whether you look a certain way or not. You can act crazy, wear a ridiculous outfit or forget to do your hair. They see past the advertising. They see the real you and if they see what they like from the beginning, it won't go anywhere. Unfortunately we do live in world of advertising and we are the culprits too.