Please Take a step back

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hibyAJOSW8U

If you're familiar with Art and it's methods, you know that you're less likely to see the flaws of your work when you view it from a distance. Up close, you notice all the little mistakes you made during the artistic process. The same theory is applied to nearly everything, that things at a greater distance are more pleasing than things at a closer distance. Almost every study or practice wraps around the idea. That things look great to us because we are not paying attention, and that if we got closer, we would notice the flaws.

Little girls have this problem a lot. Because they can't view themselves from the outside(metaphorically), all they see are the flaws. They get too close to the mirror and see their clogged pores, their veiny celluloid, their splitting ends, their long toes(a girl actually once complained to me that her toes were too long). What little girls fail to see is that there is no designated standard for normalcy or beauty, and that's the beauty of it.

I like that there are no standards even though we think there are standards. Is life like a wikipedia where we put our brains together and build a standard(with refutable evidence)? I know we all say that the constant stream of images and media puts an image in front of us of what we are supposed to be, but isn't that just us putting the tv and the media to the task of doing it?

I was just thinking to myself today. I know everyone talks about the perception of normalcy and standard, but hardly anyone is making that change against a made-up image. I guess change comes slowly.