Celibate and Sane: Curls of Communication

October 5, 2010

Curls of Communication

After getting home early one afternoon, I flopped onto the lounge and flicked on the television. The sight that met my eyes had me transfixed, and just a little nauseated. The queasiness wasn't caused by the fact that it was an American soap-opera, although that would be understandable, but rather by the weird creature I saw before me. I think it might once have been a human being but she'd obviously been mutated or struck by some strange disease that caused her skin to stretch into an open-eyed rigor-mortis-like visage. I refer of course to that strange condition known as over-the-top, botox-enhanced, saline plumped, dermabrasioned, skin-tightened, plastic surgery.

Ok, I could probably have come up with a more concise title.

It was rather intriguing watching the actress attempt to portray emotion on her almost frozen face. When showing extreme distress, all she could do was open her eyes wider and vigorously fling her head about. Obviously these youth-challenged actresses now have to grow their locks longer so they can display more emotion with a particular flick of their hair.

Can you imagine living in a society where our emotions could be expressed through our hair tossing? "Kath and Kym" would be ahead of their time, while those of us who are follically-challenged with frizzy hair, unruly locks or baldness, would have to rely on mere wriggling of our eyebrows or the suggestive twitch of a moustache.

Mmmm, that takes me back to a blog entry I wrote earlier about menopause and the resulting increase in facial hair – perhaps it could come in handy.

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Personal Quotes from Vicki-S

"Occasionally I find my breakfast a little bitter, and sometimes it's difficult to chew and swallow; though at other times it's sweet, but it’s very satisfying and always sustains me. My most important meal of the day, is feasting on God’s Word and drinking up His presence."

I love me, because God loves me. It's not that God doesn't see my flaws, they are like blazing torches in His eyes, but rather that He sees past my imperfections and still loves me. And who am I to argue with the perfect God that I am worthwhile, that I am worthy of love, and that He accepts me and wants me to be His child, His beloved daughter? When I understood this, I began to accept and embrace His version and His vision of me, and not the world's.

"The silent treatment and sulking are simply two other weapons in the arsenal of the manipulator."

"Often people use the metaphor of a butterfly emerging from its cocoon to describe how we can grow from difficult experiences, but what they don't mention is the fact that at first we start off as an ugly caterpillar."

"We so often just get caught up in trying to just get through each day, that we forget to pause and be thankful for the fresh one that is presented anew and untouched each morning."

"Contrary to what we might think, forgiveness isn't so much about healing our relationship with that other person, but about healing our own broken heart."

"The purpose of school reunions is to show off how much you've achieved in life, to laugh at the once popular kids who've aged more quickly than you; and to wince at the guy who was a bully in school and who aptly became a policeman."

"I've found in many organisations where volunteers are needed, including the modern-day church, that 80% of its people sit back and let everyone else do most of the work, then there's the 10% who actually make the place run, and the remaining 10% just like to whinge about the 10% doing the work, especially about how they could do it better."

"When traced back to its source, every sin, every despicable act, and every war was motivated by someone's selfishness."

"I do not want to think of man, for that would distract me from God. But if I focus on God, I cannot help but think of my fellow man, and each day God keeps the scales balanced so that I have enough within me to do both."

"Overcoming depression isn’t about changing ones attitude, or just ‘getting on’ with things, it’s like removing one’s personal black shroud one thread at a time, with ones teeth.”