The end of vanity
I used to be a model
in magazines and on TV
but the person you all worshiped
wasn't me, wasn't me
The only thing that mattered
was how I looked and what I weigh
so I'd binge then make myself sick
every day, every day
But I found out the hard way
that when you end this ride
you're suddenly a nobody
and you feel like suicide
And all your friends desert you
when the spotlight goes away
The fame and fortune disappears
when you have nothing to say
It took the words of a stranger
in the absence of a friend
To make me want to carry on
not draw my life to an end
She found me crying in the park
this old woman of eighty two
she was the one that told me
whats in the picture isn't you
A picture's just a memory
caught on film or on a page
a fleeting moment of your past
in which you'll never age
So dry your eyes and carry on
don't fall victim to your past
your beauty is inside you
and that will always last.
"Don't fall victim to your past'...how true in so many of us.
We all need an elderly mentor (or equivalent) to guide us back to the path when feet have wandered. There remains such pressure on women (and increasingly on men) to tie ourselves in knots trying to be something we're not. Society and the media have a lot of pain to answer for. well done for speaking up, and showing the way Annie. :) kath xxxxxx