The only problem with this is it comes with a steep Price. Entitlement would be the 1st negative character trait acquired through a pretty face. Once the pretty person gets lots of discounts they start to expect them and begin to form an attitude of superiority above others.
You know the hot chick that gets the cut line at the dance club, a hot chick that gets away with a speeding ticket, the hot chick who gets 1 million likes on her every freaking post on Facebook and in rare cases the hot guy gets preferential treatment.
The problem is that it creates separation and disconnects people from being able to fulfill their needs for love and connection. Just look at all the messed up people in Hollywood. They live with the pretty face discount their whole lives and no matter how much discount they get from their pretty face, it never fulfills the deeper underlying needs of love and connection. In many cases, without discovering this underlying ego challenge, actors and musicians and famous people will turn to drugs or food or even exercise to numb the pain of disconnection.
So if you’re pretty, check in with yourself and ask… do I expect the world to treat me differently than everybody else? And if you see someone or meet someone who is clearly possessed by the pretty face discount, don’t get angry, don’t be jealous, because these people are sometimes the most challenged, disconnected and lost people in society. In the end, without some kind of awakening, they spend the rest of their years in misery and complaint.
Instead, try compassion. Instead of judging, try seeing beyond the surface. Chances are someone with a pretty face discount just wants love and connection but doesn’t know how to get it.
Well that’s my wisdom for the week. Hope you can gain something from it. Feel free to comment below if you have anything to add.
Lots of love, Chad
good stuff Chad!
change last line from
can’t gain to can gain
Personally, I have to disagree. I am a pretty girl and have found it to be a curse in many situations. I have received traffic tickets and have never gotten a free pass from the police-nor did I expect it. Frequently I have been immediately judged especially by other women and struggled in my 20’s, and even now, to have girlfriends. I am extremely spiritual and have always sought to grow and be more in touch with my inner-true self. I have a huge heart and am committed to a better world and more humanity in my lifetime and the future. I like my looks, but who I am is what is important to me. In this way it has been a gift for me to be pretty, as I have had more time alone to think about the important deeper things in this dimension and the many others, as well as more time for my spiritual practice.
Many Blessinngs,
Michele