During lunch with an old friend of mine, she argued how it is unjust how attractive people get more attention. She was saying that when her kids were babies, they were so cute that people had come up to her all the time, telling her how adorable they were, etc. etc. She started talking about how unfair it is that attractive people get more attention.
And I sat there, pondering whether I felt it was unjust as well. I didn't and I still don't. My kids get all sorts of attention. People come up to us on the street all the time, cooing "Ooooh, they're so cute," or "What a pretty girl." I assumed most people did this to all kids because aren't all kids adorable in some way?
My friend continued to say, "That stuff never happened to me before, but with the cute kids, it happened all the time. It's just so unjust that attractive people seem to get more."
Sitting there, I kept wondering whether I was a bad person to think it wasn't a big deal: So what if attractive people get more? And before some of you start thinking that I must be one of the beautiful ones garnering the extra, undeserved attention, trust me, that is not the case. While I may not be ugly, I am surely not in line with the likes of Heidi Klum, Catherine Zeta-Jones, or Jessica Alba. And just because the beautiful people are apt to get more attention and/or stuff, I don't fault them for it...or see it as unjust. I think that is just how life is and we have to deal with it.
I also think that beautiful people can turn ugly in an instant if they have a horrible personality. So, while they may get attention in the beginning, if they don't have a good personality, it is doubtful others will pay much attention to them.
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