Saturday, January 28, 2012

Lies

I'm so tired of being lied to. I feel constantly bombarded with lies, especially from movies, book and music. All of these proclaim "love"- what it looks like, feels like and how it should be. Well their love is a lie. That's not how  love really is. Movies and books set up expectations, unrealistic expectations, for life and it really hurts when you realize that your expectation are wrong. It hurts me and it hurts those around you as they try to live up to unreasonable expectations. The second thing I'm tired of being lied to is body image. Movies are especially guilty of this. The only women they show are not real women. They are women who spend countless hours daily at a gym, they have personal trainers and they eat practically nothing. They portray that as normal, in fact if you do not have that fake body you're not good enough. This is a lie planted in our heads from really early. "You are not perfect if you do not have a perfect body." I've started "stamping" things in my mind so I don't get as confused. I have a mental stamp that I put on things that are lies. It's kinda silly but it really helps me.What do you do to overcome constant lies?

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