Emily

He’s not a fellow English student like myself, but a philospher :P So we’re always having these long (and sometimes, seemingly endless) debates about life and the exhistance of God etc… They can get a bot tedious for those around us, but it keeps the fire going, as we’re talking (wel…arguing) about things we feel passionate about, and it’s a wonderful way of learning and enriching our knowledge.

Anyway, enough about that. Chris is in the same year as me (both in our penultimate year at York) we first met in the open day at our university, and we sparked up a conversation and as well swapping emails with some of the professors there, we also swapped contacts with each other. From then on we steadily started conversing with each other via msn, email, phone. And we even set up a few dates. And it’s all gone from there really…

We’ve been going out for nearly just over 3 years now, and despite the few religious arguments everything’s been well. We moved in with each other two years ago, and thankfully our living habits haven’t drove each other away :P

We have talked about marrigae before, but we’ve both decided that we want to get our prfessional lives started first, thus creating some stability in our lives before we do anything drastic, like having a hideously expensive wedding in some English castle…I don’t know…

My parent’s have been great to me all my life, they’ve always been there for me whenever I needed them, and they continue to be there for me even though I am now considered to be an adult, and embarking on a life of my own.

I love my parents deeply, butI would feel much happier (and slightly less giulty) if tehy didn’t worry about me so much, which I know muct be quite hard for them, As I am the only child. But, I don’t want to feel as though I’m a burden to them.

They’ve worked hard all their lives to make sure I had the best education possible and that my future quality of life will be good. And for that, I cannot thank them enough.

With my last year at university coming up, I’ll soon have to start makig some major career choices and what not… I’d like to become slightly more independant, which will finally let my parents do things that they really want.

And that is what they deserve: to have a peaceful and content life.

I personally think this (fairly) new phenomenum is a disgrace. And what’s more upsetting is that adults who should have more common sense are succumbing to this horrible trend – causing impressionable young teenagers/children to follow suit.

And now with the new ‘double size 0’ fixation starting to arise in the crazy world of Hollywood, I can only wonder at the lengths some of these people are willing to go to, just to achieve what the media presents as ‘perfection’.

All these weight debates are all very well, but have they actually made much of an effect on the situation? I think not. I think all the industries need to own up to their own mistakes, rather than blaming each other.

The media should stop anielating those few people like Kate Winslet, Charlotte Church and more, just because they are the size any NORAMAL woman should be. And praise or criticise them for their jobs whether they be actors, writers, singers or even just socialites. Their body size shouldn’t have much play in this.

What’s even more saddening is that the world of fashion, I, myself would like to go in to, are selling this horrible trend to women in the masses. Causing many of us to feel unhappy with our perfectly normal, healthy bodies. What many of these magazine readers are not realising is that these ‘super models’ are not the same age as us, but rather young girls of 16. So, the weight they are projecting is perfectly natural for their peer group, but not for the readers that read these fashion magazines.

What we have to realise is that the image of a ‘women’ needs to be drastically changed from this insect-like-lolly-pop-headed image to one of the curvascious beauties like Marylin Monroe and many of the other beautiful iconic women of the 60s.

_{Looking at the picture above, doesn’t the women with the curves look much better and more importantly happier in the same out fit as the skinny girl? It just goes to prove that starving one’s self is not the way to go…}