Looking, Seeing, Being

Today I have been very aware of how we all are as individuals. Firstly whilst watching the royal wedding I was made so aware of social status, beauty, how we are watched constantly (not to the scale that the royals are but well). We are constantly being observed and judged on appearance.
This heightened awareness was fueled further by my reading for my take home exam about African traditions and cultures and how we look at those different cultures and how they look at our cultures and I was once again so aware of the fact that we are all looking to see how each other lives constantly.
finally i was made aware of individual appearances and how we are judged by others for our appearance but how we are judged the most severely by ourselves.We are constantly picking out faults and monitoring them, obsessing over them and this presents us from loving ourselves, just like cultural, racial, economical differences stop us from loving those in the world who might be different.
Thinking about this and watching glee as they all wore their faults printed in big black writing on the front of their shirts, I was thinking of how complex acceptance is.
We struggle with ourselves everyday for our entire lives because each day we find fault be it our weight, our hair, our make up, our clothes, anything and in society we are constantly struggling against each other also.
So how do we fix these issues, I know it is not as simple as printing your fault on your tee shirt and go parading around and it is definitely not simple regarding social issues but is there a way for us to ever all be at peace with ourselves and love ourselves for who we truly are and will there ever be an erasing of the lines of difference between the many difference peoples of the world?
These question interest, yet perplex me as they are questions which will most likely remain unanswered and will continue for generations to come, it seems to be in out nature to fear difference and to always find fault with ourselves.

D. Mount