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“There are so many hammocks to catch you if you fall,
so many laws to keep you from experience.
All these cities I have been in the last few weeks make me fully understand the cozy,
stifling state in which most people pass through life.
I don't want to pass through life like a smooth plane ride.
All you do is get to breathe and copulate and finally die.
I don't want to go with the smooth skin and the calm brow.
I hope I end up a blithering idiot cursing the sun -
hallucinating, screaming, giving obscene and inane lectures on street corners and public parks.
People will walk by and say, "Look at that drooling idiot. What a basket case."
I will turn and say to them
"It is you who are the basket case. For every moment you hated your job,
cursed your wife and sold yourself to a dream that you didn't even conceive.
For the times your soul screamed yes and you said no. For all of that.
For your self-torture, I see the glowing eyes of the sun! The air talks to me! I am at all times!"
And maybe, the passers by will drop a coin into my cup.”
-Henry Rollins
w.o.r.d.s.
Sunday, November 12, 6:27 p.m.
"In 2003, more than 223 000 cosmetic procedures were performed on patients 18 years of age or younger, and almost 39 000 were surgical procedures such as nose reshaping, breast lifts, breast augmentation, liposuction, and tummy tucks.."
Reading something that like really does freak me out. I think, what the hell is going on in our society that little girls are getting their bodies cut up because they hate the way they look so much.
But at the same time it makes total sense because I know for a fact that if someone offered to pay for me to get surgery done I'd take them up on it.
And I know all the things I would get done. And I really believe that I'd be a happier person after, that life would probably be easier.
When I was in highschool I seriously wanted to get my boobs done. I researched it, figured out how much I'd have to save...everything. But for awhile I changed my mind. I thought about not just the risks but what it would actually mean. The commitment that it would be. How, in some ways yes my life probably would be easier. But in other ways it would get a lot harder.
But these days, and I don't really know why, I'm thinking about it again. Seriously. And I would like to say it's not because I don't feel pretty and nothing to do with feeling completely inadequate when looking at other women, or any type of media. But I can't really. And I know that's the worst reason ever to get plastic surgery done, but I don't really feel like there's ever a good reason (beyond reconstructive surgery due to accidents/birth defects etc). Anyone who says they're getting it done for themselves blah blah blah, they're lying.
