comments on plastic surgery

Plastic surgery, a growing trend that is not only for the very affluent, but also for middle class people. As technology improves, people are offered the chance of improving their looks, with relative safety. Usually, plastic surgery is for those in the later stages of life. These people go for plastic surgery because they want to remain beautiful. However, a worrying trend of plastic surgery is also emerging. More and more youngsters are catching on to this trend. Form people as young as teenagers, whose most common request for plastic surgery is for double eyelids. The surprising thing is, most of their parents approve of it, even paying for their surgery fees. Does this mean that it is becomingly socially acceptable to go under the knife? In their search for the ‘perfect’ features, people are actually destroying their own identity, bit by bit. By sacrificing natural beauty for artificial beauty, people are actually creating a world where they look like replicates of each other. Granted, plastic surgery have its uses, like restoring the features of the result of a accident, giving the victim another chance at life without the community looking at him with apprehension and disgust. In conclusion people should be happy with what they have. By going under the knife, just because one is not happy with his own features, he is just another piece of artwork among a sea of them.