Body image, Popeye the sailor man and DRUGS.

For those of you who think body image just became a topic yesterday I’m here to tell you that drugs and the human body has been around for a very long time. If you think drinking just became common please date back to when Jesus turned water into wine to save a wedding.

Body was always important just on different scales, songs of songs seems like a whole chapter of a man going on and on about a woman’s body, and thats just the bible.

Our world has always told us to rely on something else, always told us we are never enough we need something.

We are never enough, Popeye was one of the greatest sailors that ever sailed the seas, so the story goes yet to get Olive’s attention he relied on a can of spinaches that changed him from a small wimp, to an angry muscle bound strong man, and before you could criticize he told us “I am what I am” leaving no room for change. Who knew what that can of spinach represented? was it steroids? was it marijuana?
Children couldn’t grow on their own, they needed the Flinstone’s vitamins, I know because at 5 i was addicted to Flinstone suckable tablets. When society is finished treating you for all kinds of depression by getting you hooked on anti depressants that have so many side effects, you may have been better off stressed out locked in your room crying, than the enhanced thoughts of suicide, which resulted there after.

This same society that tells us that Cocaine is bad, too many pain killers is wrong, persons who drink every day needs help, but what they forget to tell you the same high a cocaine addict gets when he takes a small whiff, is similar to taking a couple vitamin C’s and B12 vitamins all at once, combine sniffing some glue and a dry tea bag and you’re on cloud 9. All these ingredients my 3 year old nephew could buy at the corner store.

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I’m not telling anyone it’s great to go take whatever drug they want, I am asking you to realize that “THEY” have taken all the bad and made some of it look good. The pressure to look perfect is more pronounced than ever, but the pressure to need something to be perfect is 10 times stronger. No one can have the perfect body by chance or by genetics, no the media is attaching everything to something else. The celebrities whom you’ve never seen with a brake out or Zit are showing up in proactive commercials, thanking Proactive for their perfect skin. Everything that we see and everything that happens, “THEY” have the “DRUG” that made it all possible. From gyms, fitness shakes, yoga, do it your self plastic surgeries (which i’m sure they’ll invent soon). “THEY” want to make sure you know that “THEY” are responsible.

xoxoxox Lauren O Lauren, I wonder who “THEY” are?