This is the Real world
I write on our book blog often, but this is my personal blog site where I write about real life and personal things. I know the 'fashion' blogs are all the rage right now, but fashion is just smoke and mirrors. I cringe at when I was a teen and had to have the most fashionable designs, or as close to them as I could afford.
As I grew older, this thing we hate set in, it is called reality. I've been wondering why we hate it or more to the point, why we tend to fear reality so much. Many people turn to distractions to pretend reality doesn't exist, yet, no matter the distractions, when we return from them, reality never goes away.
Some people turn to addictions, not just substance abuse addictions always either. Gaming and technology in general can be a powerful addiction for too many. Technology is a good tool, if used right. But technology is responsible for marriage and relationship destruction, for loss of jobs, for loss of money and even for loss of one's home because too much money was spent on buying 'things' from web sites. All addictions, all needing to be dealt with.
Distractions, like buying expensive fashion items. We seem to think 'things' will make us happy, fulfill us when relationships turn bad, when we feel lost and need a 'thing' fix. But that's just what is is, a buying spree fix, only good until the next 'high' is needed. Technology, can destroy lives as much as drugs and/or alcohol can.
Can we tell this to kids, young adults or older adults and they get it? Probably not, unfortunately.
I have watched America's Next Top Model and while amusing, it is also sad. This show gets entirely too much media attention. They have one 'media' guy on there, whom I cannot stand because I highly doubt This guy knows what anyone needs to wear or buy. Just a spokesman, like a carnival barker for 'buy me, buy me, buy me' nothing more than a selling tool. Then they invited a popular blogger to visit, a guy who has no sense of anything that looks good, but because he is brash on his blog site and rude to people about what they choose to wear, he is 'popular' Lord help us! Like Joan Rivers and her fashion police act, which, folks is just that, an act. I watched Joan as a kid, she is older than dirt and so many face lifts, her face looks like stone.
Well this ends this chat session and I doubt anyone particularly cares because my site has no boobs, bare asses or high fashion to it. More's the pity.
