In search of ‘perfection’

✒ OVER the years we have striven for physical perfection, especially in our teenage years.

In this respect film stars and pop idols have been our role models.

However, since the Kardashians appeared on TV, things have escalated and accelerated to a different level of vanity. They appear to be one of the catalysts that have driven youngsters to look to surgery for “physical perfection”. I know I’ve written before on this subject, but recent TV programmes about plastic surgery have left me feeling both sad and astonished.

Also, I’ve recently heard that people taking selfies can now enhance their appearance by filtering the image. What’s that all about? Perhaps the next step to madness!

Young women seem to be the biggest culprits (not always, but usually) and they can have lip enhancement, tattooed eyebrows, boob enlargement (sometimes reduction), cellulite removal, injections to make the skin go brown, laser treatment for hair removal and the most puzzling of all, having fat pumped into their bums. Having probably spent around £50,000 in the process, they may end up looking like a composite body of Groucho Marx, Max Wall, Mick Jagger,

Jackie Stallone, Dolly Parton and Phyllis Diller. That’s if they’re lucky!

When I look around my local pub and look at my mates who, like myself, are physical wrecks, I realise it only took about £20 per week on beer/cider to achieve this state of gruesomeness.

Unlike our younger counterparts, we won’t need surgery to rectify any mistakes, but just a few more pints to enhance our corpulent torsos.

Take care everybody and remember, it’s a jungle out there. Beau Legs Bristol