Self (obsession)

Self love 

No, I didn't mean selfie love. Which  matter is altogether different - which is much worse pandemic having attacked more than half of the populace - most of them of the fairer sex. 

I want to write about loving thyself. Many of the advisers on internet tell us how important is self love and how one should devote some time for it etc. etc.

But now we have taken this self love to a whole new level. We are so much obsessed with our appearances that we devote most of our waking time caring for it.  

We keep looking at the mountain inside our wardrobe and hating each and every item in it because we don't look pretty in it. (And we blame clothes!) We hate ourselves a little bit too, for being foolish enough to buy such  items. And take an oath that we will not buy a single piece of clothing until we have nothing to wear. 

And we open our favorite shopping app the very next hour.

And the mobile camera - this has made all of us into Narcissus. We take a hundred images of ourselves in different circumstances, different backgrounds - every single day. Then we edit the images, trying to beautify these images and falling in love with this image. 

A gentleman should consider his mirror with distrust.

- Amor Towels

We, at our age - well past a young age - keep looking at our own images as if we are sixteen year old princesses  (Ha!)

On a serious note, this obsession with our outer appearance has turned all of us into greedy, selfish oafs - at our age.