Aappearance; icon; picture; The world’s perception of you.
People do not take things lightly, particularly when who you are is basically derived from your outward appearance. Humans struggle to establish this through personal expression, even although they don’t have any control over societal judgment. Everyone’s actions are something to someone else, it’s a way of understanding who someone is without knowing them intimately. How a person tends to handle this intelligence can say much more than the outward projections they consciously put together. Individuals may conclude that their state is at all chance or, for those lucky enough to have a robust internal locus of control, understand that all your actions come together to make you who you are. The trick is knowing how to use your personality to improve the quality of your own life.
Countless opportunities are lost when lives are left to passive destiny. At its extreme, it causes animosity for those who are successful with those who lack an internal locus of control. This irrational fear or loathing of the success of others is based on the distorted idea that success, and therefore happiness, is a game with no results; that other people’s success automatically takes away from yours. This belief breeds instability in an individual’s personality, which is usually masked by an unfounded pride that makes one capable of sub-human behavior when one’s image is threatened. Look at the repeated civil wars in Central America, the genocides in Africa, or the gang shootings in Chicago. All of these actions are anarchic individual attitudes, in which one person or group acts above the others. Any challenge to this strength, this pride, is met with violence above and beyond any initial threat. People with this internal locus of control know that there aren’t any external threats to their internal sense of empowerment; not even the threat of taking one’s own life can take away the truth that’s their sense of existence and self-worth.
