Comparison

When can we say that someone is ugly or beautiful? Or someone is fat? When do we say that we are smart and others are plain stupid? How did we measure a perfect 10 person or an unfortunate four? And what is your basis that you are better than others?

The use of adjectives makes our world creative and more understanding. We came to understand ourselves, the others and our environment because of the use of adjectives. Our ability to describe what we see or feel is and our ability to compare.

The idea of comparison is always in the picture. We compare that’s why we know what is the different between things. We compare to know what is hot and cold, what time is it, and how big or small is something. There are a lot of advantages that this comparing had brought to us.

However, it also brought a huge burden by creating standards that people have to reach. The standard of being beautiful, smart, rich and acceptable, the idea where people have to be ‘in’ in a certain criteria to be acceptable in the society they live in. Through comparison, we outcast people, we named them ugly, fat, sinner, and poor.

Comparison gave birth to social hierarchy. It classifies people from top to bottom, VIP to class D, and higher class to lower class. It also dictates the color and shape of the acceptable. When you’re fair and white then you’re beautiful and if you’re black and dark then you’re ugly. Yes, we could say westernization also contributed to this standard but basically the roots of it is the comparison. You won’t say they are better looking without comparing it to yourself.

This is harmful because we are all created differently from color to size; intellectual capacity to individual strength and even our genetic structure is entirely different.