So, I'm reading Elle magazine recently, which my daughter and I bought for some beach reading last week, and I totally love Fergie. She rocks. And she admits that keeping her body fit and strong is an ongoing exercise in diligence and responsibility. Like, if you want to feel good and strong, then you have make little decisions every day to eat healthy food in moderation, work out nearly every day, say no to those things that may bring that momentary satisfaction but that don't contribute to your overall longer-term happiness and sense of well-being.
The Dalai Lama talks about the distinction between short-term pleasure vs. an internal sense of happiness and self-worth. I believe that participating in sports, sweating every day, contributing to a team effort, training yourself to reach the next level, lead more to that internal sense of self-worth and happiness, than if I fixated on the wrinkles around my eyes that are now there to stay (literally laugh lines), or the ready availability of short-term "fixes" that abound in our society that promise pleasure or some immediate gratification. Fast food, drugs, even cosmetic procedures which belie nothing...
Can we talk about this whole direction our society is going in for women, where plastic surgery is like the new, fast way to "beauty"? I'm troubled that teenagers today are entering womanhood, only to be confronted everywhere they turn with women who have had so much altered on their bodies they all start to look the same. I mean do we really think that Heidi Montag is happier in her soul for completely and permanently altering her appearance so drastically? And what kind of husband encourages and supports this full scale attack on her body and face? What happened to for better for worse, did he not love her fully just as she was?
Horse poison injected into your face? What is up with that? I mean really. Large and hard breasts on an otherwise slender body? You undergo elective surgery, pay thousands of dollars, and for what?
I think it is time someone had the courage to stand up and say, yes, a little make-up is tons of fun. Women have had fun with make-up for centuries. I love lipsticks and eyeliners and all of it as much as any girl (in moderation please). But when do we say no to undergoing the knife to have your fat sucked out, your face pulled taut to beyond recognition, breasts that are obviously not what your parents and God gave you?
Girls, just say no. Love your bodies just how they are. And take care of them. Eat good food, get that run in, and hang out with friends and guys who love you just like you are.
You are magnificent.
P.S. Someone please tell me Fergie hasn't had cosmetic surgery...
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