How do I look?

Nothing compares ‘meeting someone in person’. It isn’t always possible, especially in today’s times.

However, what is truly different in the modern times is ‘meeting someone but not-in-person’. We now meet a lot more people – but only through our eyes or ears.

Examples:

1. Phone calls  of any kind where we can hear people (these days we can see them as well)
2. Pictures – when we meet people through the eyes only (especially on social media these days)
3. We also meet people while watching televisions shows, movies, online videos, etc. – through these two senses

This would definitely have had far-reaching implications on humankind – a small part of which I would like to discuss here.

‘The increasing role of these two senses on how we look at others and want to be seen’

These not-in-person meetings are incomplete and hence insufficient to truly meet and understand a person. Yet, we have started to completely believe in these incomplete encounters; thereby increasing the importance of being seen or heard in a certain way.

At some point in history, it probably did not matter as much.

Nowadays, only a rare few would consider questions like, “How do I look?” and “How does he/ she look?” as unimportant.