(229) Addicted to plastic surgery - does it change your destiny?
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By Janet Shin
When it comes to a face reading, a fair number of people relate it to plastic surgery. In almost every media interview I have had, I have been asked whether changing one’s face alters one’s destiny. When I answered, “Yes,” people were surprised. If I say it is even written in their saju, they cannot contain their shock. They do not fully comprehend, though, that such surgery may bring misfortune to one’s destiny.
Quite a few plastic surgeons attend my lectures or contact me to get physiognomic knowledge to convince their customers, since they know people are concerned about the correlation between plastic surgery and the alteration of face readings. By providing a reliable service, they are expecting to promote their business. Face readings are often abused for various purposes.
Face reading lectures attract youths, while others, such as those on saju and feng shui, are usually filled with middle-aged audience members. The youths wait until the end of the lecture to ask me which parts in their faces need to be fixed, and how. It is not surprising that youths are interested in improving their appearance. Plastic surgery seems an efficient way to improve one’s appearance, which brings a dramatic alteration and can even turn one’s life to a different path. We have seen many pictures that show people transformed before and after such operations. It is hard to deny that most demonstrate drastic betterment and sometimes the result is unrecognizable.
However, if you search further, it is not difficult to encounter procedures that have gone wrong. We feel sad to see someone, who had been pretty, changed to become ill-looking after surgery. Some look like monsters after many unnecessary procedures.
I get e-mails from all over the world from people wanting me to read their faces. They attach pictures of themselves and those of others who they want to look like. They want to resemble celebrities in most cases. When they plan to get plastic surgery, they even fly to Korea to get my advice. They are disappointed if I tell them not to do so. Some have already had several surgical procedures. If I advise that additional operations will lead to misfortune, it seems hard for them to listen. With their habitual operations, they have lost their sense of calm judgment. There are certain illusions that plastic surgery will change them to be prettier or more handsome, and lead a happier life.
To tell the truth, this is a delusion. I only confirm when the face needs to be balanced symmetrically for overall harmony. That is only when the eyes are extremely small, so they need to be widened to see a bigger scope, literally. Or when the nose is unnaturally low or appears bashed-in, so it gives such an unbalanced facial impression.
I have emphasized hundreds of times that physiognomy and facial impression do not provide the same readings. For some people, I don’t deny that their faces were improved to give a better impression after some surgery. But I must say their satisfaction will not continue long. Such beauty only lasts a certain period of time. It is a limited moment compared to viewing life as a whole. The beauty achieved by knives and needles is followed by loneliness in latter years, according to saju.
As we mature, we acquire the ability to see inner beauty and not be blinded by the lure of skin-deep looks. It is not by manufactured beauty but by natural beauty that people are truly fascinated.
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The writer is the author of “Life’s Secrets.”