OK, here’s a question to determine just how vain you are: Would you rather be 25 but look 50, or be 50 but look 25? For my part, I would totally choose the latter which, I guess, makes me super vain.
Also, if my outward physical appearance weren’t affected at all by the food I choose to eat, I would just eat pizza and burritos every day, regardless of what it did to my health.
And you know those people who claim to be “spiritual but not religious”? I’m pretty much the opposite.
Geez, I think I need to seek professional help. . . .
You already had professional help for your (pre) pursuit of apostasy and you didn’t heed.
Your obsession flatters me.
Well, since I’m going to still look great when I’m 50, I’ll choose being 25 and looking 50.
You mean Christian isn’t 50? 😉
I’d take the latter as well. I was so ignorant at 25. Now I’m wise (cough) and awesome, I’ll take the good looks of youth to go along with my incredibleness.
Some might say that whatever you choose is vain, as in wanting to look any sort of way instead of another is vain. Depending on what a particular person esteems, youth or age, to desire a certain personal projection is to dabble in vanity.
Which reminds me of a point I’ve made to the wife about her brother who likes to say that one difference between he as a man and his vain wife as a woman is that unlike her he “doesn’t care what he looks like.” But he does, because if his barber suggested a mo-hawk or a shaved head or dreads instead of his “Mike Brady,” he’d recoil. He wants very much to project a tee-shirt-and-jeans-dude-who-isn’t-trendy image. So he’s actually just as vain as his wife, but because he thinks vanity is only about “flare” (or whatever) that he’s not.
Your definition of “obsession” (about 5-7 comments) bores me.