Nip/Tuck

Disclaimer: This piece of article has got nothing to do with eponymous series. Please draw your inferences carefully :) cheers!

I read this new article today in the papers about affable Courtney Cox planning to get some nip/tuck surgery to better manage her assets. I got interested for one simple reason - I really like the girl an dher husband. From whatever little I have seen on TV Cox and Arquett come across as a really normal couple, celebrity status notwithstanding.

Courtney believes that men would never understand why women need to get body enhancement surgeries. She's is right. Even women do not understand why men do a lot of weird things like pumping up their bodies with weights and ... err ... steroids ... or brag about their true or imagined conquests ... or why pampering their ding-dongs is their favorite passtime. Big Deal?!

Well, we haven't got the time to get in to the details of how and why men and women seem to walk on parallell lines that never ever seem to concur. My thoughts are more immediate ... why the hell should we let doctors tamper with our god given gifts.

Boobs - it is another story altogether.

(I have never really stared at boobs ... except for two occassions. One, A close friend made it a point to remind me that her best attractive features were above her neck. I politely disagreed. Second time ... they were thrust into my field of vision. What do you do ... how do you resist ... when the sun and moon both vie for your attention.)

Coming back to the point of need for body enhancement surgeries, I can understand the need to look great, to become more attractive. However, I cannot fathom the madness that prompts people to chuck commonsense away and let themselves be tempered by greedy surgeons.

What is the need? Societal pressure? Media perptuating the myth of a non-existant ideal for beauty? Insecuriy & low self esteem?

May be all of the above!

Truth is that people all around us, family, friends colleague, the world in general tends to coerce us into walk the line drawn by the invisible hands of fickle 'society'. We have forgotten to cherish our own happiness and run after the fuel of ambition provided by others. Consequences are all too prevelant to ignore. Pamela Anderson has turned herself into a walking hazard. many a dreams have been squeezed and crushed between her mountains. Our own Rakhi Sawant has suffered many a humiliating moments. They didn't need to do it.

I wish Courtney spends her money on some thing else like a short trip to Mumbai, India or do a course in Islamic culture, or gifte me a car ... or just she could use that money to take speilberg or Tim burton for a lunch and bag a great movie role.

She looks best the way she is. a little goofy, a little smart ... most of all an adorable woman.

Wishing you luck, Courtney!