The Importance of Looking Good

The Importance of Looking Good

It’s 7 am and you wake up and you wish you could just go back to bed. You take a shower, grab your coffee and pad to the closet to look for something to wear. As you stand there putting color combinations together in your head you think. “Why do I even bother?” The answer is simple. You don’t want to be the most unattractive dresser in you office. No matter how physically perfect you are a bad wardrobe drops you from a ten to a zero in no time.

Society puts all this pressure on looking the best, having the best, being the best and it is easy to see why. Dressing well makes you feel good, feeling good equates to confidence and confidence practically guarantees success. We all want to be successful we all want to appear confident.

I have a friend who is a single mother. She says she doesn’t care what she looks like. She says inner beauty is more important. She is right. Unfortunately people regard outer beauty first. Humans like things that are attractive to them. Animals are given bright colors to attract the opposite sex. It is why we eat what we eat, why we listen to what we listen to, the attraction to something, be it a chocolate fudge brownie or an acid jazz track on your Ipod, stimulate us and our body releases hormones that make us feel a certain way. After that initial reaction, the feelings are stored in your memory. On hand to be recalled when the stimuli are received again. So we dress well, we dress well and feel great. We love the compliments, we love the confidence, we love the stares. We love people sending out positive energy our way, we soak it in. Mainly because we bothered to love our selves and our clothes in this unique combination that shows to the world that we are important and worthy of that positive energy.

So for our mental stability it is important for us to feel we look good. Have you ever gone out to eat and realized that you have spilled something on your shirt. Then that sinking feeling comes in and you can feel the stain burning a hole in your skin. And you are hyper self-conscious and everyone notices it. You casually mention the stain to everyone. Even just in passing because you feel that if you acknowledge the stain. It will only make you look human. When in all actuality it makes you insecure. A Preemptive strike towards yourself, as smart as it sounds, no truer words come to mind then the saying "You are your own worst critic."

It is not so much that we care what others think about us. It is more about what we want to feel. We want to feel like others regard us as attractive, even if it’s not entirely true is true for that moment. That is where they not caring part comes in. Ignorance is bliss. We would rather be oblivious to the truth than forced to deal with the negative reality. So instead we must dress as though we know we are attractive and unforgiving. That causes us to emit our confidence and thus making us more attractive. It is a win-win situation.

By
Maiku