I heard a great message last night about the real world. The gist of it was – how this ‘real’ world isn’t all that real… more fake than real actually.
This world is full of plastic pleasures, pleasures which make promises they can’t possibly keep… and we never learn. Promises like…
… wealth brings happiness
… extra-marital escapades bring happiness
… breast augmentation brings happiness
… power brings happiness
… meth brings happiness
Empty promises, plastic flowers. Reminds me of a quote I read once…
An intriguing entomological experiment shows that a male butterfly will ignore a living female butterfly of his own species in favour of a painted cardboard one, if the cardboard one is big. If the cardboard one is bigger than he is, bigger than any female butterfly ever could be. He jumps the pieces of cardboard. Nearby, the real, living female butterfly opens and closes her wings in vain. (Annie Dillard, The Writing Life)
What’s the Demi Moore cover shot got to do with fakeness you ask? Alas, another Photoshop blunder. One of her thighs are not like the other, one of her thighs are not quite the same… (anyone else having a Sesame Street flashback right now?)
In your pursuit of happiness, please don’t reject the authentic because of the well-crafted counterfeit.
Horrified – but not surprised. It saddens me when I look at the images thrust at our young innocent children… and most of them are fake.
Great post.
Posted by PaisleyJade | November 21, 2009, 12:41 pmso sad… i am raising three young girls and i hope to do everything in my power to help them to love themselves the way they are. each of them is different but equally beautiful.
%*_*% rosey
Posted by ittybittyandpretty | November 21, 2009, 6:35 pmI LOVE THIS PIC!
Posted by FaerySarah | November 23, 2009, 2:07 pm