The passionate souls

I am on my daily walk on "the way of the cross" near the Saint Joseph Oratory. It is quite peaceful place. Just some little noise from the street Queen Mary can reach my ears. I can see statues and beautiful trees and flowers. I can watch people who walking there, or other God’s creatures, like a marmot, which goes its way looking for food. I can pray or meditate seeking my inner peace. At the same time it is rebellious place. At the beginning of the way I see some trees that grew on stones, when other trees are in soft soil. Who force them to fight their way through the firm ground? Who force people, like Christ, to fight for other’s rights or believes?(I am sorry for the very superficial association, but I see this way).
How can my soul be calm, when I think about restless soul of Christ, or Father Andrew, or Martin Luther King? These people could not find peace in his mind when other people suffered due to injustice, diseases or lack of faith. They go to the jail or to the Golgofa defending their believes. When ordinary people seek peace, fighters seek challenge. Fighters are able to support their minds and believes, like Martin Luther King does in his “Letter from Birmingham Jail”, and lead others.When I read this article I delight in logical sequences of his statements: his classification of the evolution of "any nonviolent campaign",evidences of unjustice towards black people at that time, examples of justice and unjusties,etc.He proves necessity of social disobedience to unjust laws and insists that their action,demonstration in Birmingham, was timely.I agree with this statement, because amendment of any unjustice must be done as soon as possible.Especially social unjustice that makes many people suffer.
Fighters,like Martin Luther King, are model for us to fight against any unjustice and any social disparity.

The beauty and related issues

Western Society is obsessed with face and body images. In order to chase unattainable ideals, numbers of patients have non-surgical or surgical facelift, or liposuction, or breast augmentation.There is a shocking statistics.Just look at it! 12,5 billion is the amount of money Americans spent on cosmetic procedures in 2004! 11,5 million cosmetic procedures were performed in 2006, 446% since 1995!In Canada, non-surgical facelift grew to 17,628 patients in 2003!Women are seeking 85,5% of all cosmetic procedures.(PlasticSurgeryStatistic.com)
My reaction to these facts is a suggestion to make plastic surgery mandatory for women.
I think, it is quite logical! Of course, it is not absolutely safe. Like any other medical procedures or medications, cosmetic procedures might have side effects. For example,injections of Botox might cause pneumonia and dificulty swalloing or even deaths(The NY Times,"For Botox Users, a Few Words of Caution" by Jane E.Brody).
But facelift can enhance self-esteem,thus,increase women's productivity as co-workers or help them carry social roles as mothers or wives.
Another advantage of plastic surgery that is not required a lot of time. Patients can spend just several hours in operation rooms for liposuction or augmentation of breast instead of hours and hours in gyms.
Sometimes there is uncomfortable feelings after non-surgical or surgical facelift: patiens cannot smile, or their smile looks artificial. It is nothing to compairason with comfort for society(mostly for men!) to not see wrinkles or other signs of aging.If it is important to keep their men(husbands) beside, women can sacrifice some coziness to their bigger mission.Thus, the rate of divorces can be decreased thanks to plastic surgery.
Go ahead to the universal "plastic" beauty and happiness!

Two real stories.

Yesterday I rented and watched the movie "Two weeks notice" with very handsome Hugh Grant and beautiful Sandra Bullock.It's a story about relationship between a very rich and spoiled man and an intelligent woman. This relationship, after some challenges, came to the happy end. But I don't believe in any kind of mesalliance. The happy end of relationships between people with different social status is impossible, in my opinion. I would like to tell two real stories.
One of them is about relationship between my friend, Helena, and a rich man, Jack. They met each other by the date service. Jack was well-educated and had a high salary. Helena just came to Canada. She was without any financial support. At the beginning Jack was extremely nice: bougth a car for my friend, invited her mother from Russia, supported my friend and her two children. But when love chemicals disappeared, he became rude and finally suggested:"You can stay with me in my house, but your daughter (she was 13-years-old at that time) must get out". My friend had no choice: she could not stay without her young daughter, and she left the house. But being emotionally involved in this relationship, she suffered for a long time. At present time she cannot experience sincere love. She started to use men.
Another story have not ended up yet. But, I think, there will be no happy ending for it.
Irina is much younger,than her partner, Stuart. She is 31; he is 59. Stuart is much richer than Irina. She recently divorced her husband, a very rich Russian, due to his infidelity. She works, raises her 1-year-old son, supports her mother, and wants to love and to be loved (simple woman's happiness). I don't know how thay have met each other, but their relationship has continued for three months.He phones her, invites her to his home. She always goes by taxi, when he wants her to come. He never pays her way, he never gives gifts, and never calls from France, when he goes there ( both of his former wives live there). He presented her to his mother and friends. It's an unusual event,because before he never presented his girlfriends. Irina thinks that is a good sign. No doubt, she is emotionally involved in this relation. She obsesses with idea to show him:"I am a human being. I am valued. He must estimate and appreciate my high personal qualities". Poor woman...
By the way, I have seen the DVD with above-mentioned movie on sale. It costs cheapper and cheapper... Nobody believes in this kind of fairy tales. How about you?