Have you seen a picture of a person so flawless, that you thought his/her appearance was simply perfect? The image was, no doubt, manipulated.
There is no person in the world, whose picture after a photoshoot would not get improved upon with an image manipulation software.
That's because no one is as perfect as our false images of perfection are. Nor should anyone be. We as a collective have become too picky. It's not enough that someone is beautiful or stunning. Her skin has to be perfect. Otherwise we will comment on her (I'm using the female pronoun because men can be rocking a stubble and scars, but for women that is unacceptable) appearance as not being pretty enough, as not being just perfect and right.
We have lost the appreciation of imperfect beauty, whilst being fed images of manipulated perfection. Why? Well, it probably started after someone figured out to make their models look a bit better than other companies models in advertisements, through manipulation.
So why would we buy a product that is brought to us by a normal looking, kind woman, when we could buy the product given us by the dominating icon of perfection? That, however is no longer a real person. If we go out to the real world, we will not see that person, anywhere, because she does not exist. It is an image.
You might have heard people displaying disgust if there is even a slight problem with a person's appearance. And I do mean even a slight. I'm not a fanboy, but Kristen Stewart is not an "ugly bitch". Sure she's not perfect, but nor are people criticizing her appearance. Nor is anyone. Nor should anyone be.
Critical thinking has it's places in the world (especially questioning authority and norm), but being too critical of other people.... If you're going to criticize others, then you are inviting others to criticize yourself. Same goes for other things. Have your mind with you. Don't just criticize for the sake of criticizing. Also think positive when you can. See more than one view if you can. I don't want a world where, instead of "I liked these parts of X (even though it wasn't perfect)", we will only hear "I fucking hated X (because of these parts that weren't perfect and didn't live up to my expectations, even though there were a lot of good parts but those are not worth remembering)".
All in all, I think we should reduce the emphasis we put on perfection, and try to see the perfection of imperfection.
