Digital Enhancement .....OR....lack of it ...PART I

"Beauty lies in the eye of the beholder " Sure it does ...

But tell me why is this world then obsessed with beauty at such a superficial level ..why do we only look and lust after beautiful ,sexy people,toned bodies and abs ? Why are the perfect celebrities then(perfect only physically though)so obsessed with getting themselves airbrushed and digitally enhanced even at their size 0's and 2's (I'm talking the female celebrities here).

Why this endeavor to be dangerouly thin and more PERFECT ??

Don't know ..I guess the answer is because their face and their bodies are their bread and butter and nobody particularly cares to look at an overweight or obese celebrity .Sad? YES!! Pressure? YES!! Unfair? YES!! Superficial ?? Hell YES!!!

I wonder if these folks ever entertain the thought of packing on the pounds and letting themselves go just to relax a little bit seeing how people react (and this mind you is not thier roles demanding it)
I can bet ........the reaction cant be good because the public does not care to see the beauty in these minds , only on their bodies and the visage, also then they would loose their million dollars salaries in a heartbeat.

This morning I came across some hilarious pictures and I will present them in 3 parts ..these are pictures of women who are superstars and known around the world for their beauty,sex appeal,talent ... I could not have for the life of me imagined that these women could look this unappealing..ever !!! Why?? Because its just unimaginable

Well, see for yourself .These pictures have been digitally enhanced to make them look like they packed on the pounds ...too many pounds, I think.

Alyssa Milano :



Check out this petite stunner from poison ivy , and the Television series Charmed. No she doesnt look like a stunner,at all.

Angelina Jolie



This absolutely gorgeous woman, with tonnes of attitude, currently the fair and the sexier half of Brangelina . How do you think she looks? Nah! Not sexy , more like a fridge raider.

Britney Spears



This super star and teeny bopper who does 400 sit ups a day...Look good to you ??Not to me .

Catherine Zeta Jones



There's only word for Catherine and that's would be STUNNING .I cannot imagine her like this.Can you?

Halle Berry



This beautiful woman who gets sexier every year is inconceivable like this .What do you think?

Kelly Minogue



Like fine wine,this woman keeps getting better every year and epitomises sexy .But this and her??A big no.

Shakira


This belle dancing crooner with the biiig voice and truck loads of sex appeal is nothing if not gorgeous and sexy ...Her and this state ? Cant think of it .

So I saw these pictures today and laughed my way to work.Still have a few good laughs left in me .These pictures are realistically impossible.I mean these women would probably die than entertain such a thought.But it was hilarious,even if only for just a few minutes .

Keeping watching this space for Part II and III.

An Evening at Rainier

Of ties and bonds

"I think people that have a brother or sister don't realize how lucky they are. Sure, they fight a lot, but to know that there's always somebody there, somebody that's family."

Yes people with siblings are lucky ..Iam very lucky.I have two.In our country we have special festivals like bhai dooj and rakhi to mark our day.For years I have celebrated it like yet another festival not reading much into it and sometimes even underestimating its importance.Its only the years apart that make me miss it.For many years now,we have been celebrating rakhi in absentia.But this year was different.It was special

..Why you ask ??? Well, because me and my brother were together after a gazillion yrs and we decided to prepone the festival and celebrate it on our own time ..So we celebrated it not on the 19th but on the 2nd of this month .

Found this poem very fitting :-)

As kids, we lived together, We fought, we laughed, we cried.
We did not always show the love, that we both had inside.

We shared our dreams and plans, and some secrets too.
All the memories we share, Is what bonds me now to you.

We grew to find we have a love, that is very strong today.
It’s a love shared by our family, that will never fade away.

You are my brother not by choice, but by the nature of our birth.
I could not have chosen a better one, you are the best on earth.

This post I dedicate to you ,my brother ...happy RB..much love

7

Its been quite a while since I visited this space.No matter how busy I got or how other things commanded my attention I have always needed to be here and say what was on my mind ..As always there was a deluge of thoughts.....So ,I started thinking about something as basic as days of the week ....sun, mon,tue,wed,thur,fri, sat........Ah !! 7 ... There's my blog entry:-)

Now there's a long list of sevens 7 continents , 7wonders of the world ,7 vows of marriage,the 7deadly sins(pride, envy,gluttony ,lust,anger,greed ,sloth),
7 virtues(humility,kindness,abstinence,chastity, patience,liberality, diligence),7 corporal works of mercy (feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, give shelter to strangers, clothe the naked, visit the sick, minister the prisoners, bury the dead),7 gods for the Egyptians, 7 heavens for the Moslems, 7 angels for the Parsees, 7 sacred horses , for the Persians,the moon changes phase every 7 days,7 colors of the rainbow and the 7 musical notes of the diatonic scale (do, re, me, fa, so, la, te).

And then I stumbled across the most important 7's of all.........The 7 stages of grief .Important ?? Why?? Well, because I did not know grief existed in stages and those too 7 ......So.....What is it ??

Grief is a "deep, prolonged mental anguish over a loss" and has multiple causes ..So anything from experiencing homesickness, death of a loved one,friend , divorce ..to ...loss of health, mobility ,freedom, freindships,home or possessions can lead to grief.It's is recognized to have 7 stages :

(1) Shock :or Disbelief that the loss has occurred.
(2) Denial :is the stage in which the person refuses to accept the loss has occurred. (
3) Bargaining:this involves attempts to reconcile the loss by making deals with other people, sometimes also with deity.
(4) Guilt is marked by statements of "if only I had done/been . . . ".
(5) Anger is a natural stage everyone must pass. Anger may be directed toward the loss, the person lost, or even deity.
(6) Depression :this stage comes and goes throughout the grief process. Resignation at the end of the depression indicates that the truth of the loss has been accepted and the person is ready to move on.
(7) Acceptance and Hope means that you understand your life will never be the same but it will go on with meaning and hope

Why did I not know this ...Because I thought it was all the same..One long process, no stages ...Have I gone through these 7 stages??..You betchya ....Have I moved on from depression to hope and acceptance ??......hmm!! Yes because there is no life without hope , ever!!

Some people make recoveries from grief sooner ,others take time , some others; they don't really get over it ..just keep vacillating between the 7 stages...Me,I could never put my life in limbo because of grief came into my life and it didn't somehow go the way I thought it would........ WHY ?? because ......

" Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life"

So indulge life and love ..not GRIEF .