AS IS 09/10/2010
 
  ACCORDING TO CAS

What ever happened to “Purchase…As Is”?

My girl and I went dress shopping yesterday for an event this weekend It’s important that we both look as “hot” as possible.  The invitation said, “Come Dressed to Impress”.  So who are we to debate the flyer, even if we don’t quite understand what it means…brainwashing…it’s something else, ain’t it?   Anyway, we tried on dress after dress, and as the day progressed, we became more discouraged with our looks.  When the day started, I thought I was a cute, better-than-average looking woman.  In actuality, I am jacked up.  My thighs are too big for straight leg pants.  My butt is too high for low cut jeans.  My breasts are too tiny for V-necks and the list continues.  My friend realized she was just as messed up.  Everything on her body was either too long, or too big.  It’s surprising we have anything to wear at all.  But thankfully we do, because as bad as we look, God forbid we go naked. What has just happened?  Next to diamonds, shopping should be a girl’s best friend.  Yet my shopping excursion has been no companion, she’s only been a conniving, backstabbing, trick.  And, if I didn’t love shoes and fall fashion so much, I would have nothing else to do with her. 

 

Immediately when we returned home, I undressed and stared at my body in a full-length mirror.  Without delay, my friend retreated to the gym. Where she vowed to spend every moment for the next four days.  As she tried to shed her pounds on the treadmill, I attempted to rediscover the girl I once considered to be beautiful.

 

Beautiful, according to Noah Webster – marked by quality or combination of qualities that delights the senses or appeals to the mind.

Beautiful, according to the street – Halle Berry

 

Of course, we all want to look a like what we observe on television, it’s human nature to emulate what we see.  Women are told what’s beautiful, what’s hot, what’s sexy.  It’s everywhere. But what happens when we don’t fit into that mold?  Does that mean God screwed up?  No, God is infallible.  There is no mold. There is no “beauty cast”.  Being beautiful comes down to one thing…attitude.  Remember Charlotte’s Web?  Wilber was just a pig, but it was his attitude that kept him from becoming bacon.  If we look in the mirror and see a “pig”, we are setting ourselves up to be “fried” by society. I must admit, there is some truth to the saying, “Everything I need to know, I learned in kindergarten”.  It’s obvious we were born with certain things we may or may not like.  But trust me what we find upsetting about ourselves, someone else envies.  I have a friend with dark brown lips and she hates them.  I, on the other hand, have light pink lips and wear nothing but brown lipstick to make them look dark.  I love her lips; wish I had them. But, that wasn’t part of my mold.   We must flaunt our “flaws” as if they are our calling cards.  If we can’t wear what’s “hot” at the moment.  Let’s create our own “hot”.  God gave us personal style and for those who have lost it, he gave us fabulous gay men.  Find one and go shopping.  Make the experience uplifting.  Celebrate those hips and use them to saunter.  Shimmy those small breasts, for they have better elasticity.  Pout those full lips, for it makes the men weak.  Accentuate that round booty, for it makes them even weaker.  True beauty is in the attitude.  So let’s give ‘em attitude with a capital A. 

Attitude, according to Noah Webster – a position of the body or manner of carrying oneself; posture

Attitude, according to Cas – gives a signature statement that no one else can claim

Find the blend of clay that was poured in your mold.  Embrace it! If you don’t, know one else will. 

 

Now that I feel beautiful again, I gotta go.  Four more days to this party and I need to find the right heels to accentuate my calves and lift my bottom, which automatically sticks out my chest.  All that with my curvy, padded bra, I am sure to be the hottest chick in the place. 

 

Yeah, yeah, true beauty comes from inside…got that.

But looking absolutely fabulous…baby that takes a whole lot of work!

 

Love, Cas

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