This is a short, but necessary rant. HONESTLY?!? What’s wrong with you people and cell phone photos of yourselves? Get over yourselves!
If you’re a model and are paid to look pretty, then OK, I’ll accept that you have to keep track of how you look with a seductive pout a few times a day… but for the rest of the world who seems totally obsessed with cell-phone-in-mirror photos of yourselves looking “hot” – there are so many more important things you should be doing with your time. Plus, vanity never looks good on anyone. There are Greek legends about such things.
It feels like it’s getting worse, doesn’t it? Politicians are getting kicked, or shamed out of office practically every month for taking compromising photos of their crotches or flexing their aging muscles in the mirror. You can’t go a week without some Hollywood starlet having “compromising photos” of herself released online. I’ve had an entertaining sex life, but I still never uploaded nude photos to freakin’ iCloud. That’s a good idea. What the hell are these people thinking?
Teenagers spend hours at a time posing in front of their computer to get that perfect profile photo where they have “just the right sassy look.” I understand wanting to look good to get a mate and pass along your DNA, but what’s happening now is just embarrassing to the human race.
If I see one more random photo of someone with his shirt off in front of a mirror I’m going to… rant in a blog post, I guess.
Vanity is the worst manifestation of insecurity. You’re embarrassing the intelligence of the human race. You want to impress someone? Go help homeless person. Plant a tree. Spend an afternoon with your grandparents who probably miss you and learn about history. Invent a new product. Write bad poetry if you have to, just stop being sucked into your own damn image. You’re embarrassing yourself. Stop the ego porn.
Seriously, people. Get over yourselves. If you must take photos, take one of your kids, your dog, a nice sunset, maybe your whole family sitting in front of a fireplace with a small Christmas tree off to the side and the family dog licking itself. Take a picture of a good lookin’ car, or a fast boat, or old tree, or dead flower – but how about we stop spending so much time admiring ourselves in the mirror!?! Maybe if the level of selfie ego goes down just a little bit, we might start being able to solve some of the multitude of problems in the world whose root impasse is the stubbornness and pride of the people involved – because they’re always making sassy looks into a damn mirror.
Make the world a better place: stop the selfie. Stop the ego porn.
