Miss Charlie Daniels

Anyone for a quickie?

Modern day society is full of disposable, short-term, quick fix things: from razors to nappies and contact lenses to microwave minute meals.
Our patterns of work have even succumbed, to become mainly temporary contracts; no one stays 25 years in a dead end job for the gold watch anymore.

If you don’t like what you possess naturally, then you can simply change it.
You can extend your nails and your hair and for some men - even the penis!
Since men started to drool over Pamela Anderson’s false knockers on ‘Baywatch’, women everywhere have started having boob jobs.
So when the lights go out on the first night of passion, the question is less, ‘are you genuine?’ and more like ‘is that real?’

Romance itself may not be dead, but it is a little different. Most of us are no longer involved in ‘Endless Love…’ more like ‘Brief Encounter’ or ‘9 and a half weeks’. Even marriage itself is entered into with the view there’s always the quickie divorce. People don’t get married for life any more; they get married until they get bored. Months or even years of courting, wining wooing and dining are now replaced in the main, by a beer a curry and then a quick shag! (And some even skip the curry!)
…And now speed dating is the new storm.
Gone are the days where you would politely suffer an intolerable bore over a three-course meal. Now it seems all the rage to play musical chairs every three minutes, with as many potential victims as possible.

Even sexuality itself is now disposable. You can now jump from one gender to another. Although I have no problem with John who really feels like he should be a Joan. I must admit it still came as a bit of a shock when at my wedding, my husband’s best man decided to switch to chief bridesmaid. I must be one cool babe, as I allowed myself to be upstaged, on my big day, by a 6ft guy in one of my own skirt-suits, and I even did the make-over: how bizarre!
(I should have known then this omen meant my marriage wasn’t going to last 24hrs!).

I cast no moral judgements when I simply state, that by today’s rules,
even life itself is now disposable.

So why did we become this cold faced, quick fix, farce and fake society?
A place where the grass is not so much greener as it is Astro-Turf?
Have we have seen too much television and been brainwashed without realising it?
The answer stares us in the face when we look in the mirror.
Most of us no longer want to see our own reflection -
We are constantly mirroring our image on someone else.

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