For the sake of beauty

For the sake of beauty, would you sacrifice your health?
For the sake of beauty, would you sacrifice your life?

There are too many things in this world that people would sacrifice for just so that they can have the 'perfect' figure, the charming eyes, the proper lips etc. BUT the price to pay for what is not real is costly.

I just read an article in TODAY paper today about General Practitioner becoming or providing cosmetic surgery service. This resulted in some cases of health defects and problems which created complains and dissatisfaction. According to the newspaper, it states that there are only 35 registered plastic surgeons here as compared to the number of GPs around.

They questioned plastic surgeons with regards to the allowance of GPs to practice cosmetic surgery and Dr Martin Huang said, "we are not saying you can't do this work, but get trained and qualified. Become a bona fide plastic surgeon.". With regards to this, i agree. One can be a jack of all trades, but i believe that in the case of health-related issue, i would never seek the advice from one who is a jack of all trades. I prefer consulting a specialist as their main study would be that of what they specialise in and thus the time spent on research, studying etc would obviously be incomparable to that of one who knows a slight bit of everything.


I went to search for some plastic surgery failure story and one story indeed touched my heart. I seriously felt that as a plastic surgeon, one should be responsible, instead of doing it for the sake of money. That is the part of the plastic surgeon. The other party responsible would be the recipient of the surgery. He/she should take the initiative to question any doubts, do their own research, seek other medical experts advice first before finally getting a plastic surgery done. This way, it would help the procedure to become more effective as well as productive while at the same time, the patient would be at ease too.


Thinking of this, it reminds me of the tv show Nip/Tuck. It is a drama about plastic surgery. There is this one episode whereby the anesthetic didn't work out and therefore though the lady is sleeping, she can actually feel the pain upon every single cut that the doctor does and as an audience, one is able to hear her cry whereas the people in the operating room seems deaf about it.


For the sake of beauty, men and women alike both sacrifice. What is the price one is willing to pay?



For this, i am persuaded not to sacrifice my health for the sake of beauty. Rather than lamenting on what i do not have, i should appreciate what God has given me and use means which would not affect my health to stay beautiful and become who i am instead of who i want to be. It takes lots of courage to practice this, because the media and the world are constantly filled with things that would easily sway or persuade one to adjust to the needs of the world, and not to the desires of your heart.

Everyone's persuasion is different. What matters is being happy, not being flaky.