There’s Generally More

I’ll keep running because it lets me be selfish.  It’s the thing I do that’s just for me, and nobody else.  FYI, I never thought this being-selfish-thing could take so much discipline.

“Cool!  She’s doing something for herself!  I don’t do that often enough…I should do something for myself once in a while!  And if those shoes help me out, then I’ll buy them!”

Wait!  Stop!  Calm down!  Look at the key word, there: selfish.  They don’t even try to hide the word behind cleverly manipulated text!  They state it right there: selfish. 

Here are two more:

A picture of a woman holding a brief case with a purple sign on it.  The sign says “I did it for ME.”  Everybody has their own reason for looking into BOTOX Cosmetic.  If you haven’t called your doctor yet, isn’t it about time?

An inflated picture of a huge, juicy burger, ketchup and mustard oozing perfectly, crisp, green, wavy tips of lettuce poke out from between a dewey tomato and a drip of warm, melting, golden-yellow cheese.  The caption reads: Wildly tantalizing, yet totally virtuous.  JUST LIKE YOU.

Our society is too easily manipulated by the idea of being selfish and doing something for yourself.  You deserve this, you can do that because you’re so selfless the rest of the time…do a little something for yourself sometimes!  There isn’t anything wrong with the occaisional thing here or there for yourself, but when you’re overwhelmed by three plus ads in one magazine and billboards and commercials between shows and you begin to get overwhelmed…