You are aware this is a BODYBUILDING board, right?
Self appearance = Self worth is kinda the status quo.
And I think that's the problem.
Muscle ads cater to that. Like the skinny guy getting blown away while the big guy gets the girl. Crap like that.
Either way this is not a good thing.
I think it would be interesting to have a "bodybuilding" and a "philosophic" section of the message board. For those who associate self worth with apperance, they're just falling into a round-about cycle. You'll never be pleased 100% with apperance, therefore you'll always strive to keep looking better and you'll never be comfortable with yourself. That's why you have to change your thought processes. You have to change the inside as well as the outside. Just changing one without the other isn't changing at all, that shit is just temporary. It's like going on the zone diet and losing weight, than going back to eatting normally. The person never changed, their apperance did but their nutritonal intake remained the same, plus their confidence will probably be wrecked after that.
One thing I think that's humerous is the normal public is repulsed by some of the muscular physiques while most of us strive to be these massive monsters. We aren't catering to be accepted or to live up to other peoples expectations, we're just doing what we want and what makes us feel the best.
I think of it as being passionate about something, you just do it because you love it, there are more important things but when you accomplish what you need to, you move on an dominate in something else. You don't see Arnold still competing. He's the freaking governor. Same goes for Lou Ferrigno, he tried to be an actor, but at least he switched fields and tried to succeed in something else.
"If all you've learned from bodybuilding is more bodybuilding than you haven't learned a thing"
