What’s So Wrong With Just Being Who We Are?

So many of us are all about routine, especially in the morning. For me, it's coffee and breakfast while catching the Today show on the tube. I've been a big fan for years. But this week, I'm so disgusted with a segment they've got on, I'm ready to shut it off.

Has anyone else seen the disturbing segment? You may have seen it advertised over the weekend, that this week will "change your life". I was worried where they were going to go, but didn't think they'd actually stoop to this level. But they have. This week, they're exploring all kinds of cosmetic surgery, much of it non-evasive.  Granted, I can ignore it and move on. I get it, it's not for everyone. But it's the way this very influential show is presenting it that's got me peeved.  For example, one segment talked about what kind of procedures you "should" have done in your 20's, 30's, etc. Wait a minute? How vain have we become that it's acceptable that we need to have work done in our 20's to prepare for later? What are we teaching our youth?

I guess a part of this is inspired by a Time magazine article about how plastic surgery could become the new normal. To this, I respond, SERIOUSLY? Why is there this vain need to be "perfect"?  Bodies age, gravity takes over, things happen.

Another segment this week had a guy was getting a liquid nose job live during the show, which injects something into his nose at a cost of $750, minimally.  As the doctor performing the procedure said, "it makes him look that much more handsome." (Meanwhile, Matt Lauer cringed uncomfortably in the background throughout the whole procedure.) What this segment, and the rest of them like this are ultimately doing, is celebrating the need to look magazine cover beautiful, and how easy and non-invasive it is now a days.  I thought we were trying to teach our kids to celebrate our flaws/imperfections and they make us unique?  So why is this feature okay?  I'm terrified to see what they celebrate tomorrow.