Well don't we have a nice impression of ourselves?

A song that I really like is that Baz Lurman sun screen song that was really popular in the late 90s. I like it because the advice is sound and pretty accurate. But there's one line that says "you are not as fat as you imagine." Well here's the thing, a good self image is important. I, for example, think I'm the shit. But being realistic is also important.  Sometimes you just are that fat or stupid or ugly. I tell you that so that I can talk about this.

So over the last few days there has been a trend on facebook where people were prompted to change their profile picture to a picture of a celebrity that they have been told that they resemble. I have never laughed so hard in my life. I swear to god, if people actually told some of these folks that they looked like the people they posted then those friends were either liars, blind or don't understand what the the phrase "look alike" means. Now I'm not saying the people that put their picture up are particularly unattractive as I try not to associate with people who are less than aesthetically pleasing.

What I'm saying is that I think a few people took a little too much license with what other people have told them. For example: Someone could tell me that I looked like a young Mel Gibson while I was in college. But that would be more like, "You were drunk and screaming about how Jews started all the wars in the world, you looked just like Mel Gibson." And then me thinking there was an actual aesthetic reseblance. See where I'm going with this? Another example would be that my fiancee told me once that I looked like Val Kilmer. This, actually, I can see. But what these people putting up certain pictures are doing is akin to me posting a pic of "Val Kilmer"

When in reality it's more like, "Val Kilmer."

Like I said though, it's good to have a healthy self-image. I've said many times that the reason I hold myself in such high regard is so that I know at least one person in the world at any given time thinks well of me. Of course I'm also a misanthropic a-hole, so that should be taken into account too. But let's be honest here. Also the women that I saw were much much guiltier of doing this than the men. I had to resist the urge to not type a reply that says "no, no you do not look like Kate Beckinsale" or whatever smoking hot woman they think they resemble. Some of them are attractive, to be sure, but just not that attractive.