Well, it's been a while since you have heard from me.... sorry! LIFE has been happening!
I was having a chat with my daughter the other day about movies. Don't you just LOVE those chick flicks?? They can be addicting. Women, ladies and girls love all the romance, kissing, sweet bantering and honey! It seems we can't get enough!
I was suggesting to my daughter that as much as we love these "feel good" movies we need to be very wise and careful that we do not become desensitized to the lack of morality that many of them pose. You must admit that the hugh percentage of this type of movie portray the couple having sex almost immediately in the relationship. It would seem that the "old" rule of waiting till marriage just does not apply anymore or at the very least is out dated!
Thus the conversation continued something like this:
"It's kind of like frosting. We love the looks, the decoration, and the sweetness. It satisfies our senses. It is gooey and sugary. It is down right Yummy! But unfortunately, all too soon, the frosting comes to an end and all we are left with is cake. Ugh! But I don't like carrot cake!!
We are now dissatisfied. We are thinking constantly about the "cake" that is at home and how it just does not satisfy..it is not yummy and sweet anymore. It is only a matter of time before, during our normal routein, we notice some nice looking frosting; might be at the grocery store, Home Depot, work or the coffee shoppe. Looks good, we knows it tastes good (we've had it before) and we need to be fulfilled....so we dive in ... ahh the memories...the same tingles, phone calls, texts, notes, flowers etc etc etc loving it all and denying ourselves nothing until we again reache the CAKE...oh no it's spice cake....we don't care for spice cake!!
Am I making any sense ladies? Are you following me? We must decide FIRST what kind of cake we like!! That is what we will have to live with!
My daughter at once realized that this picture story was about the majority of girls at her school. Jumping from guy to guy, one after another, always looking for the sugar high of frosting. Reaching cake...they start all over again on and on never to be truly satisfied.
Ladies, what are we looking for? Talk to your daughters or better yet talk to yourselves! Let's become and raise women of substance who choose to go the distance and not be satisfied with a sprint in a relationship.
1 comment:
I remember in college talking to some girls in a pottery class I took (haha, it was my last semester and I wanted to take one fun class outside of my major!) and I was talking about how DH and I were waiting till marriage and wouldn't even see each-other naked till our wedding night to make sure we wouldn't be tempted.
One girl made the comment about how she couldn't even follow the "third date rule" which used to mean 'you shouldn't kiss a man until the third date or you are moving too fast' well she was speaking of SLEEPING with him! I was flabbergasted. I mean talk about opening up your self too soon...it was so sad to me. But you are right that many of these types of movies absolutely enforce this type of behavior.
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