Been a little busy lately, cos I'm moving out to a friend's place, well today actually... I've got two suitcases full of clothes and like a gazillion on hangers... I'm still not sure how I'm going to fit all that in the little closet and the little chest of drawers... I seriously need a walk in closet... =P

I go to these two forums every so often and one thread that they both have in common is a picture thread... Which is only natural, since there's a constant interaction between these people but it is almost entirely conducted behind the veil of a computer...

Now me, I'm not very fond of the way I look... In that I don't think I'm disfiguringly ugly or anything, I just don't like what I see in the mirror every day... Hence, I seldom if ever put pics of me up... I also seldom talk about the way I look, or my weight, two areas of my life that I seriously need to get under control...

Okay okay on to the point... In every thread, there's at least this one person (generally a girl) who goes an a whole 'Oh, here's my pic, I'm ugly so be warned' type raving before putting on their pictures... More often than not however, they are anything BUT ugly...

Now here's my question - why would you do that?

I honestly don't believe that people would do that to fish for compliments... At least not online, cos how incredibly desperate would you have to be to need validation from members of an online community you may never meet anyway?

Okay then... So maybe you really DO think you're ugly... If so, why put your picture up at all? I don't like the way I look, so since I don't like looking at myself, why would I subject other people to it?

So yeah... Don't like people who fish for compliments... Don't feel like that's really much of a compliment anyway... The whole point of fishing for compliments is that you get some, and the way society has structured that act means that you'll get some... Nobody's gonna go 'Oh yeah you really are ugly... Geez...' though I honestly believe that someone should every once in awhile...

Ugliness is regarded as a negative thing, right? Not something people would generally be proud of... So if you really thought you were ugly, would you really want to put up a picture of yourself to advertise that fact? Would you even have wanted to take a picture of yourself in the first place as a record of that fact?

So yeah... Go find validation away from the computer screen... Trust me, it's worth SO much more...