The world is flat
and ‘love’ is just another brand
to stitch into our shirts and hats.
Felt vicariously
through wild idols,
who catch us in our drift of history,
writ large across our lives
with forced smiles and shiny eyes.
When they misread their lines,
from time to time,
they fake the pause
and blame the cause,
offhandedly, on memory.
Afraid to say that they
feel longing
for that which they have never had,
or is it just the fear
of being caught off guard?
About Me
- Straw Dog
- Some would call me eccentric (for reasons I can't fathom) and I am a sinestral ('left-handed' for those of you who aren't aware what that means).
5 comments:
hmm this I like !
Yes celebrity is just another brand,
but for sure! and it's crazy I think.
Oh but you wrote "love" is another
brand .. but they are both brands.
Not that I know what love is but I do
know we like to label everything with
love like anything, and so it's a set of
rules that is love .. like some sort of
brand. You do that and I do that back.
:) and long lists of musts ...
Then the end could be told about anyone
We are all afraid to say that we feel longing
:) hello are you and idiot who don't know
that just read all the prewritten on what
we are supposed to long for ... the brand
of love ... includes very little space for
surprises ... so a celeb or anyone can be
afraid of saying they long for that which they
never hand.... but isn't it also that we often
don't know we miss something for real?
We place the longing in music, literature,
poems or movies and blahblahblah
Oh but it is very frightening :) to change
ourselves and to change is to be off guard
for awhile, since it takes awhile to get used
to the new feelings ...
I am abstract I know
but I like to think of stuff my way
and I love the freedom of this media.
It helps at least me to grow the way I
want to grow.
Helena
so thank you for making me think more
I'm glad you liked this one. It's a very cynical look at the modern idea of 'celebrity'.
How we tend to trade emotionally with marketing and publicity agencies for a fix of the latest 'celebrity' gossip. Waiting for the celberity in question to screw up.
It's a morbid fascination I don't really understand.
Remus.
wow I think I managed to do
what is needed to log in..
:)
Well I wrote a lot on this that I couldn't post since I couldn't log in ...
You are very right I agree on that we wait for celebs to screw up and that it's like a fix, and I wonder if it doens't have to do with that so many don't live our own lives. We are afraid to live our own lives so we get dull and numb and let celebs and reality shows sort of live for us instead. But somehow we do know we are frustrated ourselves and not the celebes so we love the fix of celebs screwing up. . . . . . well I take interest too in celebs life but I am more interested in the background to WHY a celeb screws up not that she/he does. Still I find the interest in how common people also screws up as sick, it is to tickle a little and "glad it wasn't me" but we need
stronger fixes and that is so degrading, in fact more for the one with the need for this fix .
So I do believe the morbid interest lies in that so many of us never learn to rule our own lives at all so we need to come as close to "life" as possible and celebs are perfect. Well I don't deny myself to read these tabloids but I just don't find anything worthwhile in them, I often think that I could make up much better stuff myself. So much is clearly just made up, but it is a sign of "anorexia" of our minds to read so much shit about not only celebs, so I suppose it's some sort of backwards longing to live a life that is full ... and when we don't dare we read of celebs and do not forget the real celebs the royal people ..
It is morbid yes, I agree or I'd put it "sick" but many people just don't want to live themselves.
Why am I so sane ? l.o.l
well I for sure believe that we all are equal and to be a celeb is a job like any, then I suppose it is easy to believe that celebs have no feelings. It's very easy to forget and media absolutely does not care at all, they think that you have to stand the game once you want to be famous.
But the memory of us today is shorter than ever, the need for stronger fixes has lead to a faster speed for exchange in screwing ups so noone remembers today what happened last year.
:)
Helena
Helena
The word ‘vicariously’ in line 4 is exactly what you described. For a person to live their life through another. I think we live in a disposable society, everything is for short-term use. This seems to have become true of how we like our emotional ‘fixes’, in controlled short bursts. Hence, ‘love’ as a brand name. It has interesting implications.
Remus
Thank you Remus I din't know the meaning of vicariously, (I am Swedish) and like I wrote somewhere else I have got a desire back for learning English better. One more thing I do write for my own sake and I am actually learning how to "handle" myself better l.o.l. So I have become a bit "wild" when I write like here I just "shoot" to become a bit braver and to at not be so yes and no at the same time.
Luxuryprobs but I think we all should be able to afford them, I mean to learn of ourselves because I am sure it makes us better persons, since we then allow others to not be so perfect either ...
blahblah
So I have thought of the brand "love" and the love I see around me and what I myself have lived has been so much: you do this and I do that back to you, like in business. First we fall in love and feel all these wonderfull feelings and years go by and it is just a simple business agreement, where we own the house together but sadly we forget love.
Controll is what most people call love, anyway after a couple of years , in my former relationship it all ended up as a business agreement of musts and lists of what to do, and I also lost all belief in love for real. I was so sure it just is for the beginning when we are in love and that is also what all psycological books say.
So that is why love is a brand too.
It is a businessagreement of what we are supposed to do, and as long as I believed love doesn't exist after a couple of years together I was as happy as I allowed myself to be .. but I got so frustrated so all of a sudden I just realized that no I don't believe in this businessagreement of the brand love so I left my ex. So now I blahblah about myself but never mind I thought of old times when love was often an agreement for real, and love was like a "luxury" never heard of for most people.
So "love" like we today have in films is very new for everyone, and the divorserates are so high :)
But I think it is simply marvelous to live in times when I am not burnt as a witch when I just couldn't get along with my ex .
How are we to know how we change and how the one we live with changes when years go by ? I think it is wonderfull that we can have a new start when we are sure that this relationship is dead.
So my "love " with my ex could be a brand among friends and relatives too, I have got a lot of criticism for divorsing or about only that in fact and so "love" could be a brand for friends and relatives so that they know where they will have the next berbecue and next crayfishparty... "But you were so happy!" not even "But you seemed so happy!" l.o.l.
So love is a brand, I think but it depends on what values we put in.
Only two friends have told me like it is that I am brave! everybodyelse has : oh but why you were so happy! or why don't you think of your kids ?. I do is my answer ...
and I suppose through the years I've read some books and some poets and listened to music and I have for so long believed that the brand love there is just fantasies and nice imagery, but now I am not so sure. So I figure a lot on in my mind if not love could be like it must be: "unconditional" for real and have nothing to do with "you scratch my back and I scratch your back" and even less is a business agreement, but just is but then it's not a brand but is more a state of mind.
(Deep in my mind I've always toyed on a love like a state of mind, doesn't have to be explained and can't be explained but just is, and I got so frustrated for real the other year that I thought of "state of mind love" to stand to change my own mind and when I started I haven't been able to stop. It gives me so much joy so I simply can't stop, so today I can admit I have these thoughts but not many years ago I couldn't write of it at all.
I lacked a way into my own imagination for real ...
and well I am still uncomfortable that is so but at least I am not afraid anymore and that makes me happy.
blahblah I even forgot the poem "Celebrity" and it is sad when we even brag of that, what our partners has done for us .... we want to be seen so much and the prize I figure is that we never learn to live our own private lives when we have to show off our lives so much. To tell of what we did and who did what to us and just want to make it seems as we have a life. Even if I am huge blahblahblah I have never been able to try to paint pictures of how fantastic my life is, and I could for sure with my imagination. Yes to all the time tell of the surface of our lives is as close to a real life many os us comes, and yes for sure vicariously through wild idols.
Yes you are so right we live controlled short bursts.
that is very well said I think and I do agree so much.
Still I do believe that most of us would want to live more full and love more whole, but all the living the surface inhibits that, and when I just tell a little of my inner thoughts "wow are you deep" like as I distroy their working moral ...
Well I am very sure that many of us would be happier if we weren't our surface so much, but if we just let out a little of our inner world. Because we all have wings but some of us just don't know why, like Hutchence said. Yes we should open our worlds and let them collide at least once in our lives.
Helena
p.s oh but perhaps I am "yes&no" in fact I have learnt very lately that I can be so confusing but I have never meant to be so on purpose.
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