We Live in a Beautiful World...

     Last night, I walked into the Target bathroom and saw two girls dressing up in promiscuous outfits for Halloween.  After an awesome night celebrating a friend's birthday, my spirits immediately fell.  My entire demeanor changed from this one encounter because of the truth it reveals of our society.

     When girls are little, the dress up like princesses.  Although many think these stories have their own negative affect on girls, personally I wanted to be a princess because I wanted to believe in love.  In those stories, the prince loves one girl, and they live happily ever after.

     When these same girls grow up, they dress up in lingerie and call themselves kitty cats.  They've been jaded and conformed to the society they've grown up in.  Maybe they are uncommitted and enjoy being promiscuous, but I'm convinced that at the core, they still desire to be loved for who they are rather than what they look like. But they think that in order to survive and win the attention of men, the men who desire this and demand it, they must dress in this way.
 
     This image also made me think about the women around the world who are also dressing up like this, like they do every single night, in order to survive.  Women whose innocence is stolen and whose lives are ruined because of men who have abandoned their responsibility to be the protectors and caretakers of women and children to fulfill their lustful desires.

     After this I went home and read about Michal and David.  Michal loved David so incredibly much and David shows no emotion or concern for Michal.  She is a political alliance and that is all.  Michal saves David's life, but David refuses to give Michal the joy every woman desires: to bring life by giving birth and raising a child.  But, men like David are so highly esteemed in society, his lack of care for his wife is easily looked over.  Michal is a victim of mistreatment from men like her father and her husband, but powerful men can get away with this.

    All of these thoughts just make me angry.  I've been angry since last night.  It's like this heavy weight that sits on me and I can't function right.  I'm overwhelmed with all the thoughts and feelings that come to mind when something like the incident in the bathroom stirs them to life.  In the heat of the moment, all I can think is that I hate our society, I hate our culture, and I hate our world.  I hate what it has become - a consumer-driven world where people are taken advantage of for the sake of getting ahead and fulfilling materialistic and lustful desires.  I hate what men can do to women.  I hate that women in every area of the world are seen as commodities rather than beautiful mothers, daughters, and sisters who bring life and light to the world.