Why do you think everyone wants to be thin, rich and famous? Is it because we feel unhealthy,deprived of material objects or we don’t feel loved?
If you think so, ask yourself these three questions:
1. Can I walk up a flight of stairs carrying a bag of groceries?
2. Do I have parents, children, friends or a significant other that cares for me?
3. Do I have the necessities and some things I don’t need?
If you answered ‘no’ to any of those things, you have goals to reach, but if you answered yes, you are fine!
Most of us are fine! We are just pelted with images of ridiculously inflated lifestyles every day so we will buy more products!
I watched a movie once with two male friends in which:
One sister was slender and tragically beautiful.
One sister was beautiful had everything she wanted.
One sister was not thin, beautiful nor wealthy.
I was surprised when both of my friends said at the end of the movie that they were most attracted to the one that was chubby and had nothing.
“Why? I asked, to which they both answered in their own way,
“She is herself.”
The character was not influenced by trend, she loved heartily and had no feelings of shame or guilt. (She did have a good kind heart!)
I encourage you to spend some time away from screen and print media, perhaps reading a book written before television or experiencing art and music from the time before television.
When you see what life was like before money became our society’s strongest driving force, you will feel better.
Meanwhile, try, for just one day to forget image and social status and just be yourself!
D.N. Howard 