SLAVES?

This essay will be based in one simple, and so complicated at the same time, question I’ve read in our 2^nd bat blog: Do you really want to be forever young?

Is this a simple thing to talk about? Because as a simple question nearly everyone would say: yes, of course! Who wouldn’t want it? But, what if I tell you that there is more than one way to understand this question? Yes, you can think of being immortal and never stop living. That could be cool, but what if you are the only one immortal person in the world? What about seeing your whole family dying, your friends; everyone around you? That doesn’t sound cool. Almost everyone would say no then, because, who wants to see their parents, sons, soulmates saying goodbye forever? No one.

Well, there’s another way to understand the question: being outside young forever. Yes, you will die, but until that day, you will look as if you were 20. Would anyone say no to that? Being pretty forever? Maybe not even looking as if you were 20, but pretty anyway. Who would say no really? Well, there’s the problem. Nearly everyone would like that, and the thing is that it is not a personal like or something punctual, it is something that big enterprises and all the people that lead the world had put in our minds.

They show us new cosmetics, make-up, clothes; artificial things to tell us how to look and how to do everything. The problem is that “being young forever” means to be imprisoned in a materialist world forever. Because in older ages, people didn’t need to look pretty all the time, maybe rich people did it but just because, as nowadays, they had the money to pay treatments and all that stuff, but it wasn’t really like it is now. Now, girls (it is more a girl than a man thing) have to look good anywhere they go and at any age.

Maybe the conclusion to all this is to escape the system and just do what you want, but… how do you know if it’s what you want and not what they want you to want? Everyone is a “victim” of the system, including myself; and if only a few people try to stand up to these injustices maybe a new world would start being created.