Reflektion task 2b

 

In this video a forensic artist who has worked a long time for the police department, draws a portrait  only by the description given by the person whom he cannot see. After the person leaves another person comes in and describes the same person. Nearly always the portraits turn out differently and the second portrait is the one which looks closer to the person been drawn. That is the idea they try to convey, that how we see ourselves is further away then how we look like; we are more beautiful than we actually say! The reason it has touched me is because I and probably lots of other women don’t feel beautiful. We all have things we do not really like about ourselves but apparently other people do not see us that way, which is kind of a relief. After drawing the person, one portrait of her own description and one by someone else’s description those portraits are shown to the person. This was my favourite part because the women been drawn were astonished. Startled by how different their self described portrait was from themselves, amazed that others did not even notice the things they looked upon as major problems. Personally I do not really like my nose, I find it too big but whenever I talk about it usually my friends say that they have not even marked that, so I agree with the video. Something that I also find very interesting is what one woman said “I should be more grateful of my natural beauty. It impacts the choices and the friends we make, the jobs we apply for; how we treat our children it impacts everything.” I still do not know if I completely agree; I do not know how broad this “everything” is but one thing is certain we definitely should be more grateful. Since God would not have created us the way we are if he did not find us beautiful the way we are. Also it is very true that when we do not find us beautiful our self-esteem shrinks. Along with this we do not feel capable of doing what we want to do.  Therefore, we should spend more time appreciating the things we like instead of analyzing everything critically and wasting our time trying to fix them.