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Media b.....**t

I am sitting here listening to the radio, and there's an ad telling people to watch their portion size and worry about their weight!! WTF?!?!?!?!??! !? for god's sake, talk about a nanny state!! Who gives them the righ to tell ME how to live? DO they know who I am or what I need?! NO. I do. F**k that!

I'm absolutely fuming!! All the ads for plastic surgery and how happy it will make you. Bullsh*t!!! Complete BS! How do they know what will make me happy?!! If it makes ppl so happy then why do they go back for more?! Because the problem is in their heads. If you don't accept and love yourself the way you are, plastic surgery won't change that!!!

God, these things prove to me how important it is to think for myself and filter out all the BS I don't need in my life or in my head!!

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!

THINK FOR YOURSELF. LOVE YOURSELF. LIVE!!!!!

x LC

Comments

Deep breaths....

Submitted on June 10th, 2010

LC,

I know the ad you are talking about because when I heard it I got angry too. You are right though, we need to think for ourselves. It's amazing what the condition will pick up on. At the moment there are ads on the radio to encourage people to give up cigarettes. If you don't smoke, is this ad targeting you? No, of course not, you probably wouldn't give that one a second thought.

These days I prefer to put on a CD when I'm in the car or at home and listen to some upbeat music that puts me in a good mood!

C xx

I totally feel your pain and

Submitted on June 10th, 2010

I totally feel your pain and anger. It's terrible and so frustrating, I don't worry about myself so much anymore because thank god I found Marino and thank god I don't allow these things to influence my thinking anymore but I must admit often worry about the future generation. I mean, gosh if my psyche was being formed during the eighties (when there was far less of the BS that you mention) and I managed to internalise those values then I loathe to think about the future generations who, as Marie said the other night in group, begin getting these messages from when they are in the womb almost.

I'm so scared about bringing up kids in this world and I worry about how I'm going to protect my kids in the future from these "outlets of negativity" or from the false/flawed value system that has permeated into and dominates our society. The only comfort I take is that if I continue working on myself and solidifying MY values then my strength, my non-BS value system and my ethos of self-assurance and self-love WILL, in fact, protect them from the BS and ensure that they are unaffected and happy little beings.

I don't know if this gives you any comfort LC, I know what I've said doesn't change how things are but hopefully it will give you the determination to keep on going and keep on working on yourself so that "strong you" in the future might be able to counteract and fight against the BS, even if just within your own family and friends.

Aisling x