Contribution
Picture perfect
I have been checking out Friendster profiles for the past 5 mins. and what I have discovered was amazing. Vanity and psychotic images are all over, from one page to the other it's like everybody wants to appear vain or psychotic in their Friendster. Hmmm... I belong to this generation but I fear being a part of it. I am vain and I want to appear mysterious but never bitter.
As I sit, ponder and observe the kids around me, I wonder, where the days of Mighty Kids, Rainbow Bright, Voltes Five, Power Rangers and Care Bears have gone. I fear that kids now are more into learning how to smoke, drink and be a Pussy Cat Doll... and that is a sad and depressing thought. They all want an anorexic, Nicole Ricci-look or an alcoholic, disturbed Lindsay Lohan style. Funny, when I was young all I wanted was to be an Ewoks. Maybe that thought is disturbing. To actually dream of becoming a bear who talks like Mahal, well, that's how simple dreams were then. I don't know now, but it seems kids have diverse outlooks and principles toward things.
There were this group of kids in a table beside me, there's like eight of them and they were teaching each other how to smoke. "Inhale and blow," says the other; I just laughed at the whole idea. I remember so vividly, my days of learning how to smoke, same thing was told to me, "inhale and blow".
I think at some point we go through a lot of self destructive things but in the end find everything meaningless and empty. We will at some point get tired of vices that is neither comforting nor helping us grow. I feel sad at the thought of young people learning stuff so early. Maybe that is just part of the great cycle of life. Maybe, indeed times have changed, and maybe we are a growing and an innovating country that we now adapt to the Western way of living, but I hope not at the expense of our values. I do not wish to cast the first judgment on people, who I once was like. I can only hope for the better.
Yes, hope that one day they will realize that life is about getting an education. Learning from your mistakes and being strong. Being positive and finding comfort in the overrated act we call, praying. We all use the word prayer but it seems that in the end it's bottles of beer and packs of cigarettes that we run to for comfort. I am not a preacher but I am sharing what wonders it has done. I know we all are born to make mistakes and some grave ones; however, it should not be a reason for us to aim for a better us.
We all long for something picture perfect, and something we can have fast over the counter. We all want what others are having and want it now. But hey, wouldn't it be great to be just who you are making your own mistakes and just being equally good as the rest. Paris, Nicole, Lindsay, Smoking, E, Clubbing, they are not the norms of our society they are just what we think is normal, according to what the media injects in us to believe is normal. I know for a fact that everything is just a phase, and we get over them the moment we are awakened by some truths in life. A phase we will laugh at or smile the moment we get on with reality, a phase that at some point we think was picture perfect. So I say make mistakes, learn, grow up and do something for yourself, then and only then you will see real life. Something truly picture perfect.