Rational Insanity
Pink nipple cream and things you thought you needed but really didn't
Let me start this off with the shortage of nipple pinkers from the shelves of 'botika tsina's' all over the region. My aunt once asked me to buy the stuff and it took me two months of checking all over the region whenever I travel to find it. It's either I'm not looking in the right places or the 'magic nipple cream' just found its way to all the nipples of the people in Western Visayas. All I can say is that this is such an awful waste of money. Personally, I don't really understand how the vanity of most of us could extend to something as trivial and unseen as a nipple. Oh well, perhaps people are beginning to become 'surface dwellers'; what a way for evolution to express its displeasure over the pathetic state of the human race.
Anyway, on to other things...
Recently, I have increasingly noticed that people have become more and more obsessed with things they don't really need. My conclusion: commercialism has gotten the best of us by making us feel that we NEED something when in fact we don't. For instance - detergent manufacturers have convinced almost all of us that 'cleanliness has a scent that you can actually smell'. As a result, people have trooped to grocery stores to buy detergents with heavy perfumes convinced by the notion that when something is clean it SHOULD smell good. As someone with a humble background in the scientific field, I know for a fact that 'odors' are signs that bacteria is present, but hey, when someone is clean, he or she does not have to smell like sampaguitas unless he or she is a saint for Christ's sake! The absence of an odor is enough to indicate cleanliness and on the other hand, the presence of a fragrance most definitely does not indicate cleanliness.
Aside from just this, people have began to fill their shopping carts with things that they think they need but actually don't. Just a short enumeration would give us the following: powders that make the cheeks temporarily pink or give us a temporary tan, small snips of gauze that claim to sanitize the air we breathe, scented sanitary napkins (green tea scented at that? Does your v_gi_na have its own nose or who in hell would want to smell a used napkin?), flavored water (duh?), small facial atomizers that contain distilled water that you can spray on your face to cool it, cold medicine, and the two most common - decaffeinated coffee and mouthwash - coffee is meant to have caffeine and if you can't stand that, don't drink the stuff; mouthwash is plain indolence and a commercial lie. The list can go on and on but I probably would get sued if I name all the products here.
Anyway, my point here is for all of us to try and take a second look at our grocery carts and ask ourselves, do we really need the things in them or are we just being tricked by commercialism to feel a need for these things when we really don't. The problem with us people is that we want to try everything new, and once we do, we end up thinking that we can't live without these newfound things. For goodness sake, sanitary napkins that 'can fly'? Do these things really make a difference? Well, I wouldn't really know because I'm a guy, but then again, have your feet firmly on the ground, be more practical, unless you want your bank account to die a painful and unexpected death. As one marketing company would put it 'lahat naisip na ng _________'. Yeah right, they've actually thought of everything already; everything to make you part with your precious cash, that is. Commercialism is milking the cash out of all of us and making product developers and company-owners filthy rich while we all change our lifestyles drastically just because we got convinced by the starlet who advertised their product. Don't we all get it? Didn't we ever wonder why television commercials don't have the phrase 'this is a true story' written during their ending spiel? Two things: either these commercials are all lies or their products are. So, the next time you walk through a grocery isle and see a barrage of products right before you, have only one thing in mind, REAL NEED. Keep your wits about yourself and try to consider - would your boyfriend or baby really care if they suckled on a pink nipple or not? Hmmmmmmm.....
DISCLAIMER: I am actually indebted to my close friend Marcel Milliam for this week's column idea. I wonder why he doesn't write a column too. Hmmm, perhaps he is also busy pinking his nipples. Oh, but, don't get me wrong - he doesn't do it with creams, he has a secret - a more economic way of doing it - it's something like using a bottle to vacuum your skin but of course he doesn't use a bottle, and it's more enjoyable. You want to know how he does it? Find him and ask him, perhaps he wouldn't mind demonstrating it to you.
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