6.1.07 I just thought of something silly and rather embarrassing that I did long long ago. Okay maybe it isn't as long as what you call "long long ago", but I'd rather put it as long long ago. At least some censorship on the time I did such a thing would help to make the situation less embarrassing. I mean, if I told you that when I was five or six, I thought that cows with brown spots produced chocolate milk, you won't think of it as an embarrassing mistake, would you?
So back to the point. There was one day (i'm sure it happened more than a year ago!) in which the sun rays were practically glaring down into my balcony, and it happened during that phase where I had that misconception that it was 'good' to look tanned and so, controlling my excitement from the realisation that I didn't actually need to go to a beach to get my lovely little tan because strong sunlight has just arrived conveniently at my doorstep, I paraded out into my balcony and stood there basking in the attention of the sun. I shall not go into details about what I did and how stupid I must have looked to the neighbours in the opposite block who could have easily seen me. After half an hour or so, I went back in with this "ta-da!" feeling, as if I had just won a race or something.
So my point now is, some people have the misconception that looking tanned makes you look more macho or more sporty, but it's not true is it? Some people just happen to have more exposure to the sun and that's why they get their tan, and some people are just born darker, but then there are those people who make trips down to lie either on the beach or on the deck chairs lining swimming pools, or worse still the tanning studio. And well, you can't really call these people macho can you? I guess being dark proves nothing important about a person. Goodluck to you, who is still obsessed with walking on "the part of the ground with the most sunlight".
Saturday, January 06, 2007
