I have always been biased towards humanities as opposed to science and its applied disciplines. Today happens to be the day I have found an explanation for it!
Being human, a lesser mortal actually, I have limited ability to notice, feel, understand, and engage. I am partly selective, but more than that its actually the limitation of an ordinary person. So I should not be punished for not being able to relate to the world of sin and cos, thermodynamics, electrons, gravity, organic compounds and such scary impressive sounding things. I can still manage to relate to how the economy functions, how individuals make choices, why we behave the way we behave in society, why some companies make more profit than the others, how do we know what we know, why country x fought against country y, and how my life is a tiny insignificant bit compared to everything else that goes around me. Hence the bias, you see.
Now that I have proved myself capable of mentioning few impressive terms and cleverly making a case of humanities through curious questions, I can move to the actual content of my mind right now.
In a social psychology class the topic for discussion was 'inter-personal attraction.' From various research experiments, we got to know what attributes have been crucial for making a person attractive, and how looks can be instrumental. And for the millionth time I wondered how looks can win you things.
May be I have gone to all wrong places, or may be I had all wrong experiences. But it seemed as if the world is divided between the good looking people and the others. Life is easier for them on many occasions. They need not explain their reason of existence, they can easily get favors, get things done, have higher self esteem and confidence, get cream jobs, have higher chances of finding partners, have 100% guaranteed attention at the first sight, and are treated better.
This is my opinion. And from this opinion you would already know that I am on the 'other' side and tend to judge with the have-nots lense. And the reason this bothers me is this is just like the caste system, you are born with it and have little control over it and yet it can make or break your life on many occasion.
Actually I am not above this bias. I like to watch movies when the cast has lot of good looking people. I notice the better than average looking junta in the crowd. I have been apprehensive of getting married to someone extremely dark, or with some stark weird features. I have tried to look better, with help of clothes, hairstyles, and what not! And most of all, I have wanted to look better, I have wanted that easy breezy life of a pretty girl, of not having to go through so much crap, put up so much effort for every small little things.
And I have realized, the more you think of it, the more you harm yourself. Like caste, you can camouflage your looks, but you cannot change it and become Katrina Kaif! I have also learned that a thing of beauty is joy for ever....but beauty can be beyond the looks. I have actually known people who have nothing noticeable in their looks, but the moment you get to know their strengths, good nature, wisdom, and other endowments that are not so easy to notice in the first sight, or that doesnt come by birth, my faith in this world is reinforced.
Then I stop worrying about the differential standard by which I am made to live.
Going back to the beginning of the post, differential standard will also apply if you are more of a humanities person that the science and engineering world, but lets just take one issue at a time!
