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BLUSH | LEISURE & LIFESTYLE Formidable Words from Kim-Maree on the female form, expectation and mid-year resolutions... This is not my usual style of writing; I like to take the p*ss out of my life and all that comes with it. This article, however, is a self-reflection of many years of beating myself up (not literally) over the ‘ideal life’ and ‘perfect body shape’ that I formed magically some time ago. These lofty ideals or aspirations rarely come through, and so the cycle of loathing and defeat goes on... I am sure many of you can relate to me on some level. This is about ‘me’ – please understand that it’s not a dig at you and your efforts to self-improve (or should I’ve used this year’s 2019 buzzword ‘selfevolve’?). Read this article as it is intended to be read – as a very public wake-up call to myself, because my inner Goddess is an angry b*tch! Well, here we are mid-way through 2019 – time flying – and time to dust off our New Year’s resolutions yet again – because if you’re anything like me, you’ve not started your list yet! Do you catalogue your yearly failures? I do! Looking back on all the things I said I would do last year and the year before and so on and so forth... oh and this year included! A definite theme emerges... I will be better! Do better. Look better. Feel better. Take better care of myself and so on (in fact this list is as long as my New Year’s resolution one). Sprinkled in amongst the promises to do better there are the golden nuggets of prose borrowed lovingly from Ghandi, Atticus, Oprah – all reminding me to live in the moment and of course it wouldn’t be a misguided promise of a better self without a chestnut of wisdom from Pinterest! Why do I do this? Why then! When I know full well that I will not fulfil all, or any of those lofty ideals, and who decided that these ideals or life goals were actually required? My inner divine Goddess is always present, not really giving a rat’s left buttock if I am able to attend sequential Soul Cycle classes in the pursuit of a peach emoji rear. The divine Goddess is probably at a swim up bar laughing her ass off at the stupidity of it all. I AM THEREFORE I AM! I am the shape I am because, well, that is my shape. I can’t crochet because it’s boring and I couldn’t stick with learning how to do it, that goes for playing the guitar and for making origami cranes also. This isn’t gonna change just because I write a list at New Year or another list mid-year! Rod for our backs Am I striving to materialise that divine Goddess? Or that image I was told will make me feel so much better once I obtain it? If I obtain it! Every day I am convinced that my life will improve once I buy this; eat that; don’t eat that; rinse with this; and hold it all in the right place with these! The female form is varied just like hair colour is, which I can change; eye colour, which I can change, along with my jaw line, bust size and even the amount of ribs in my body – all my genetic makeup and yet even though that’s my true form I desire to re-design it. Why is this? Because of society? Blaming society for the pressure to be a certain way and to live a particular life isn’t cutting it, sorry people, BUT – we are society! I am the shape I am because, well, that is my shape. 50 BLUSH | WINTER 2019 sevenstarmedia.co.uk
BLUSH | LEISURE & LIFESTYLE There is a billiondollar industry built on keeping me feeling bad about my body and about my life in general. sevenstarmedia.co.uk BLUSH | WINTER 2019 51
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