This isn't what I started this blog to do...rant about something I can not control...but I have found myself up in arms about a certain issue that faces mothers (and fathers) everyday. Physical perfection.
My younger brother and his girlfriend just cam for the weekend. They are on a new "clean diet" and can't eat anything--well yummy! Last weekend we went to a wedding and every mom there is working out regularly, eating healthy (no wedding cake for them) and getting boob jobs to look 18 again. The weekend before that I went to my class reunion, it was the same scenario. I just want to know when we as a society became so focused on being perfect that we focused on nothing else?
I am not exempt from this issue either. I am really frustrated with myself. I, a few weeks ago, was comfortable in my own skin. Loved who I was both physically and spiritually. With one slight rock of the cradle...look at me now.
No one is exempt...all you dads who get up and work out before going to work or stop by the gym before coming home. You are seeking perfection. Society makes us all feel that perfection is attainable and we should be trying or something is wrong with us. You can't fool me, it isn't to be healthy. Healthy doesn't require you to have a size 2 waist and run 5 miles a day.
I guess my real problem lies in that if we would spend half the time focusing on GOD not the GYM, our society would not be where it is. When is spiritual perfection going to out weigh physical perfection?
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It's like you were in my head last week! I had a bit of a meltdown over my physical vs. spiritual
ReplyDeleteWell said, Jenn! There are more important things in life, this we know.
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