The title of this blog is another quote from the mouth of the prematurely wise mouth of the daughter of Hank Moody from Californication. This ties into a show I am currently watching, True Blood. Season two focuses on the hijinks of a Maenad, which acts as a ward of the god Dionysis to call him forth and devour him or her. Well this maenad also brings on a mass hypnosis of the town of Bon Temps and causes them to act on their every desire. The entire town is thrown into a state of chaos because everyone is doing exactly as they desire and not paying attention to the consequences.
This gives me a lot to think about, especially just days away from giving up a nine year old bad habit. I started smoking to look cool and fit in. I thought this would make me happy, to be liked and included. Then when things in my life took a turn for the crazy freshman year in college, I started smoking like a chimney to relieve stress and soon became addicted. In those four years of smoking, while I might have enjoyed it, I have done twice the amount of damage to my body and my mind. Addictions are a lot like energy, it can not be destroyed, only transfered. When you give up one addiction, it must be replaced with another. I am hoping that my new addiction is blogging. I could choose a worse addicton right?
Like I have said before, this will help me use the law of attraction. This is a way for my positive energy to be vocalized, therefore allowing for it to better be used or my own betterment. Even if this is just a way for me to set goals for myself, I hope that it turns into a tool for my positive reinforcement, like a journal, only this way, you are all invited to enjoy an insight to my mind.
From the goddess Margaret Cho:
ReplyDeleteIf you are a woman, if you are a person of color, if you are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, if you are a person of size, if you are a person of intelligence or integrity, then you are considered a minority in this world. And it’s going to be really hard to find messages of self love and support anywhere, especially women’s and gay men’s culture. It’s all about how you have to look a certain way or else you’re worthless. You know when you look in the mirror and you think I’m so fat, I’m so old, I’m so ugly. Don’t you know that’s not your authentic self, but that is billions upon billions of dollars of advertising: magazines, movies, billboards, all geared to make you feel shitty about yourself so you will take your hard earned money and spend it at the mall on some turn around cream that doesn’t turn around shit. When you don’t have self esteem you will hesitate before you do anything in your life. You will hesitate to go for the job you really want to go for, you will hesitate to ask for a raise, you will hesitate to call yourself an American, you will hesitate to report a rape, you will hesitate to defend yourself when you are discriminated against because of your race, your sexuality, your size, your gender. You will hesitate to vote. You will hesitate to dream.
For us to have self esteem is truly an act of revolution. And our revolution is long overdue.