Just a new idea I wanted to introduce, please feel free to post your thoughts about this. None of this is an attack on anyone here, it's really my views of people in general.

My eyes have been opened since learning from Buddhist and Zen teachings. It hasn't even been that long ago that I started looking into it, and I have a completely different outlook on life and people. The teachings encourage you to be open minded when it comes to others, but I wanted to get some opinions on a few things I just don't understand about people.

I've noticed that there are people who are obsessed with showing off. They drive the most expensive cars they can get (and often spend hours keeping them shiny and spotless), wear expensive clothing and jewelry, take hours to put makeup on and do their hair, and so on.

I don't understand who they're trying to impress. I may be a guy who doesn't understand people, I guess. It seems so stupid to me that people would go that far out of their way to glorify themselves, and generally others don't like those kind of people. It's like the women that dress in a revealing way and then get mad when someone stares at them, you know?

I try to be different. I have a few rules when it comes to the way I dress (for example, I don't wear orange shirts with blue jeans), but otherwise I prefer to be comfortable. I don't understand the purpose of high heeled shoes - they've been proven uncomfortable, they look uncomfortable, but they still wear them. Is 'looking taller' more beneficial than comfort?

It seems like all people care about lately is money. Movies lately have been themed around the ultimate goal or climax being that the main character "gets a whole lot of money". I watched two yesterday that were exactly like that. I wish people would realize that worshiping paper is just as stupid as spending hours to glorify yourself. Yes I understand that having money, you can do whatever you'd like with it.