Face Off

Philosophically, we are only the construct of our experiences. The result of learning from and adapting to experiences shapes our personalities, life choices, and ultimately fate (if you believe in that sort of thing). Moreover, the construct of who we are (our personalities) is not static; we are continuously learning who we are and who we will become. The culmination of much learning from and responding to experiences brings us to where we become ourselves. Once you change your face (extensively)through plastic surgery, you change “you.” More directly, such drastic changes dramatically change your experiences. People will undoubtedly react to you differently, and a wave of new, different experiences will invade and redefine what was being created, to create someone unfamiliar. What would have happened- doesn’t; what you should have learned- you won’t; what you would have valued- you don’t. If you can no longer learn the things “you” would have, you can’t be the person you were intended to be. In essence, people who experience two mutually exclusive life experiences through participating in plastic surgery become hybrids of sort. They are now the construct of half real experiences and half synthetic experiences. “Hooray!” for the all powerful plastic surgeon then- changing the lives of many- however contemptuous it may be.