Appearance is not important People all court beauty, but the essance for beauty is never a person's appearance. For this reason, it is detrimental that a person pays too much attention to his appearance. To begin with, having a good appearance doesn't mean a person is good, in contrast, it's a waste of time and money and this will lead him to concentrate on shallow and superficial things. As a very famous saying goes, never judge a book by its cover. Nowadays, few people care about others' appearance. A person will waste a lot of time to keep his good appearance, thereby he has no time to think about deep and profound things. My older brother had an experience like this. He used to be a diligent and erudite man who always thought about how he could enlarge his knowledge base. However, as soon as he started to care too much about his appearance, he spent almost all his spare time standing in front of the mirror or doing exercises and wasted all his money to take back bunches of clothes and fashion magazines. My brother was hurt by his view of appearance. Next, if a person emphasizes on his appearance, he will be deflected from the real essance. many people overestimate the importance of appearance. They won't have time or motivation to develop their their other aspects. Again, my older brother is an excellent example. He had a goal of obtaining a good job in an automobile company. As soon as he believed appearance was everything, as soon as he tried to be better looking, he focused on loosing weight and he spent all the time to improve his appearance. Instead, he had no time to study technic things which he should have done. So far, he didn't get a good job and didn't get even a bad one. It convinced me that appearance is just a mask with which you won't fulfill your target. Ultimately, essance of a person will steer him in a right direction but appearance won't. Taking special care of appearance is meaningless and it's not a rewarding investment.