The funny thing about the internet is it can sometimes becomes people watching taken to the extreme. Myspace.com is a good example. In many ways, it represents the worst aspects of humanity, or at least parades them around what’s left of the town square (since much of it fell victim to Wal-Mart). To some degree we’re all a little bit shallow, but there is a certain group among us that take it to another level. These are the beautiful people. Yes, I know, there are exceptions to anything. I know quite a few women who are beautiful and not at all shallow. Off course I think my girlfriend and my Mom are beautiful. These aren’t the beautiful people I’m talking about. The ones I speak of have a budget for things like tanning booths and manicures. They are the ones who protect and invest in their best asset to the extreme.


What is so scary is how very little else most of them have going for them. Chances are your prom queen went on to get knocked up by her quarterback boyfriend instead of taking off for Ivy League study. Rare is the person who is beautiful and doesn’t know it and even more rare is the person that knows their beautiful and doesn’t exploit it. Myspace.com seems to make the plight of the beautiful so much more obvious. They desperately cling to moments of glory like being chosen as a "cool new person.” This subsequently gives them the right to create headlines like “out of your league” or “gorgeous.” Modesty, it seems, does not go hand-in-hand with natural beauty.

Time is the great equalizer and eventually we all get saggy and our looks start to fade. Someday, modern science will not even be able to make Demi Moore look good. So what then becomes of the beautiful people? Those that have never cultivated a talent or an education are left with nothing. Just like the pro football player who majored in “Home Economics” to end up blowing his knee out on his first NFL scrimmage. If you put all your eggs in one basket, eventually they all rot together.

So if one of the shallow and pathetic people who put their picture on amihotornot.com happens to come across this page, take a second and ponder this. That “gift”, which you probably got through no effort of your own, is only being given to you on loan. In a society that values celebrities and no talent ass hats like Paris Hilton, it seems the next generation is forgetting there is more to life than being young, thin and rich. You might manage to get your hands on all three, but at least one of then will slip away from you eventually.