Healthy

Every morning I drive past a billboard advertising a new beauty school in town. I don't remember the name, but I can't forget the woman they choose to use as a representative of what they can (produce? I guess.)

She is a smooth faced young woman with dusky red hair, sultry eyes and a semi pouty mouth, which I suppose is symbolic of the high fashion models we see today.

I can't help thinking how sad and rather unpleasant she looks. Why do we not want healthy, happy, looking models to sell our products?

If the ideal person is one of these professional looking models then I worry that we are looking to unhappy people to become the ideal breeding stock of our race. We will be a species of sad, sultry, slightly belligerent, very thin, looking individuals with very even features and smooth skin.

For the ideal of a healthy mind in a healthy body, many of us may only make it halfway there.

That's not healthy.