As I quickly looked through the pages of “Teen Beat” magazine I saw every “A” list celebrity from the eighties. I focused on the adorable famous faces of Corey Haim and his right hand man Corey Feldman. Kirk Cameron was my all time favorite back then, any cover with him on it was sold! But, it wasn’t the hot boys on the pages with their bad boy smirks that captured my heart it was the beauty queens that captured my attention. Do I look that way? Or, why is she so special? Every little girl from Philadelphia to Timbuktu probably asked themselves the same questions.
Alyssa Milano’s beauty was undeniable. Christie Brinkley was model perfection and Kathy Ireland was new on the scene. I was young and impressionable and this was my perception of showbiz and the world of young stars. Each one of these super stars had risen quickly to the top and that is where they would stay until we the people got tired of their faces gracing countless covers of magazines or as I call them “Maggotzines.”
I was a pre-teen and wanted to be perfectly pretty like all the young Hollywood starlets. Every page I turned I saw babe after babe in high end fashion, long beautiful hair, magnificent make-up, and awesome air brushing. Ah, if only they really looked that good in person. Seriously, it would be so much more realistic to see their everyday flaws rather than cover them up with some magic editing software.
Technology is the key to fame and fortune. It makes you look amazing and it sells your albums, movies, and magazines. It sells you but not the real you. If we could bottle up “perfection” and sell it to the masses, it would be a really boring world, quite honestly. And, what is perfection? Who are “They” that define perfection? Who are “They” that cause the media blitz and buzz? “They” are people who got into positions and have power to persuade those that want to be lead. “They” love the people that hop on the band wagon and don’t think for themselves. “They” are poison if YOU aren’t careful with what you ingest into your life.
“They” are like little maggots eating away at your security, your sensibility, your power, dignity, and self-esteem. Those little maggots will eat at your decaying soul until there is nothing left of you. Just because the woman in the spotlight is trying to be something she’s not doesn’t mean you should follow in her shallow footsteps. She’s lost and she can’t guide you anywhere because she can’t find her own way. Countless plastic surgeries won’t make you pretty or perfect. Again, it just covers up the bruised and battered opinion you have of yourself.
Today people are going in to the doctor’s office for a quick fix on lunch breaks. It’s quick, easy, and it will make you feel good- NOT. You don’t have to skip on all of the maintenance if you really want to go for it. If you really want to turn back the hands of time and you work hard and nothing is happening maybe you’re not working hard enough. You probably forgot to work on your inside first.
Those “MAGGOTzines” will only make you think you are inadequate or give you a bad sense of reality. They will contour your mind to believe fake is real and real isn’t good enough.
When I think of my perception of beauty it’s not the Cat Woman who had hundreds of plastic surgeries, Heidi Montag, or any of the Jackson’s. All by the way have been spotlighted on many “MAGGOTzines” for you to buy. I truly pity them. My ideal of beautiful is someone like my mother, she’s plain and perfect. She let her hair turn gray, and has very few wrinkles without ever trying to turn back time. She’s growing old gracefully and she’s setting a perfect example for me.
Don’t worry about the laugh lines on your face, it just means you have laughter and smiles in your life, so go on and show the world how happy you are in your skin.
The next time you find your eyes drifting toward the “MAGGOTzine” shelves in the grocery store line or you Google the latest buzz on Hollywood’s latest, remember that those maggots will eat you up inside and out.
Maggots aren’t pretty, yet they are trying to sell us on what pretty should look like. There’s only one way you can save yourself. Never let yourself get wrapped up in everybody else’s opinions and ideals. If you do what works for you…I PROMISE it will work for everyone else too. “They” will try to shape your mind with materialistic, and meaningless matter, but only if you let them.
