How do people who act like they will be beautiful forever behave?

[jennifer_bloom]

When I was in 18 and 120 pounds, there was a career guy that wanted to date me out of physical attraction and I thought that appearance was such an unstable factor for marriage cause somebody could gain or lose 40 pounds in half a year and everything about their appearance would change. I thought other factors were less likely to change such as level of empathy for others, or intelligence, that it made no sense to base a marriage on something that might be lost in 3 months with a medical crises or a year of depression.

[MrOracle]

People's unhealthy obsession with looks is largely a product of the media, which is itself heavily motivated by advertising dollars. If you are a clothing, cosmetics, or fitness company, it's strongly to their benefit that you and everyone else has unrealistic beauty standards, so they can sell you "solutions" to this problem. Their advertising dollars give them influence over the media to spread and reinforce those ideas. From there, these ideas get assimilated into all aspects of the culture.

Most people today are choosing relationship partners based primarily on shallow or temporary characteristics almost to the exclusion of morals, values, and life goals, which are the three most important factors for long-term relationship success. Even worse, society encourages this, despite the obvious utter failure these ideas have proven to be.

While I think men are less likely to do this than women, there's still a large percentage of men who do. That's a huge problem that few people want to talk about and even fewer are willing to reorient their own standards. Looks and money are terrible characteristics to use to choose a serious, long-term relationship partner, but it's still what most people want to do and feel entitled to do.

[Xawyx-2]

Such people are often arrogant, they like to brag with their beauty.

Of course, not all of them, there are exceptions.

[Xawyx-2]

Thank you for MHO

[ohsheeT]

Well I mean I don't know anybody that acts that way but I do know people that take care of themselves their skin works as good as they can look I mean forever but they don't act as if they're beautiful or anything like that they're just themselves I do know one lady that is obsessed with being beautiful and staying young and you can tell that she buys the wrong lotions and stuff because everything that she's bought just make it or look older she had a reaction to one thing and it kind of screwed over but I mean that's her karma anyway I think that will happen to her all her life but I don't know my grandmother used to take care of her skin and she was just herself she like her skin to be the way she wanted it and she had a regiment that she did every night or however she did it and her skin her face look good I mean even when she passed she looked good. But the fountain of youth is air because our body our skin doesn't but a big filter in a roundabout way and we have nothing but every kind of pollutant in the air all around us every moment of the day and it just sucks our skin dry he's it full of other kind of crap but yeah if you could come up with a oil of some sort to put into our body that would be the fountain of the youth and clean air and clean water you could be beautiful forever

[Valdemort]

That depends on how they value physical appearance in general.