20 Sunday Aug 2006
What makes you feel loved?
There are so many ways I am able to love, so many different ways of expressing that. But I think it’s maybe something we’re not so good at defining for ourselves, in terms of what we need in order to feel loved.
09 Wednesday Aug 2006
Posted in health & happiness, life stuff, musings
I sense much fear in you,
Fear is the path to the Dark Side;
Fear leads to Anger,
Anger leads to Hate,
Hate . . . leads to Suffering.
– Yoda
Is it possible to feel anger without fear? Does fear always come first?
Recently rewatched the original Star Wars trilogy and was struck by how many times this Fear/Anger theme was mentioned. Especially with regards to Luke having to let go of his internal fear and anger in order to confront the ‘outside’ things that he fears.
I can certainly recall feeling fear without any anger. But I’m hard pressed to think of a situation in which I felt anger without also feeling either afraid or threatened somehow.
So, is Yoda right? Or is it a chicken & egg scenario?
06 Sunday Aug 2006
Posted in life stuff, media, musings
This Observer article provided some food for thought this morning.
Though I think the writer’s suggestion that “women are to blame for our obsession with being thin” is much too simplistic. It’s also ironic that while the ‘ideal body image’ has been getting thinner and thinner the average size of real people is in fact getting bigger.
The article mentions how past beauties such as Marilyn and Sofia would be out of work today, which made me wonder what would happen if the likes of Posh and Keira were transported back to the 1950s. They’d probably be hospitalised for their own good.
How did the ideal female body image end up becoming one that resembles a scrawny adolescent boy with breast implants? How far will this trend be allowed to go?
The small pic here is linked so it can be enlarged if you click on it. I cropped the model’s head to focus on the body. The collar and shoulder bones are almost poking through the skin, the elbows look creepily oversized and yet there are these two gravity-defying orbs stuck to the chest. 
05 Saturday Aug 2006
Posted in musings
I know it’s not just me, right?
Part of my recent ‘list making frenzy’ has been an effort to combat this aspect of myself that, frankly, I’m getting a bit tired of.
Case in point. I’ve been meaning to defrost our freezer for about three weeks now. The freezer drawers barely open and a couple of them have handles that have cracked from having to force them open on occasion. And it’s been niggling like a niggly thing all this time in the back of my mind – must defrost freezer!
Finally did it this morning. It look half an hour. 😕
And it’s always like that with things I keep putting off. The actual doing takes way less effort than living with the niggling notion that I’ve left it undone. So why do I keep doing this?
05 Saturday Aug 2006
Posted in musings
Was passing through the cosmetic section of the Corte Inglés this morning (we had been shopping at the supermarket there) and saw a big Clinique display that was promoting high impact mascara and I thought WTF???
Like, what the hell does that even mean?
I said to Nog that I was convinced cosmetic companies must have some sort of in-joke competition amongst themselves to see who can come up with the most absurd promotional jargon and still get people to fall for it. Anyhow, we had great fun on the way home coming up with the various benefits of wearing high impact mascara.
Must be the heat. 😉
