Consumerism
I work in a posh Paris neighbourhood, I live in a cosy family Paris suburb.

I prefer my living neighborhood because I know the people, the other moms, I know when there is a garage sale in the street, I know what doctor is the good doctor, I know I can trust the vet, I know where to go to buy good bread,...

I like my working neighbourhood, it's very Paris, there are real good bakeries, there are yummie eating places, there's the Eiffel tower quite closeby, there's the biking in Brigitte Bardot's street and stuff...

But my working neighbourhood is this so very very ugly posh. All these women in fur, all these children in clothes worth one month's rent, all these facelifted moms, all these green licence plates of embassies who use and abuse of their diplomatic immunity, all these overly catholic breeding machines, all these foreigners used as slaves with a sad, sad look on their face...

It's tough. I just hate what this neighbourhood stands for. The consumerism, the money, the stereotyping. Sometimes I wish I could do as once was done: live life and not be liven life. I may be wrong because a thousand years ago, it was Christian church that told us what we had to do, now it is the television and other media.
Christianity ordered people to go fight and die for their religion, magazines order young girls to starve and die for their religion.

I'm babbling, not quite straight, but the thought is that I walk in these beautiful Paris street and it gets ugly because of all the "temptations" around. You are tempted to buy your lifestyle. Your fashion lifestyle, your organic lifestyle, your economic lifestyle,... It is quite tough to just LIVE your own life. Make your choices and stand by them. Choose not to buy organic because it is polluting the environment, buy boy's clothes for your baby girl, dunno, your life gets defined by what box you buy for. So how do I define myself in the non-consumerism, personal way of life?

I will teach my daughter that most of the advertisement on television are plain poison. I hope to open her eyes to the real values in life and motivate her to take her own actions, make her own choices but I do know that I will open herself to criticism and being kept out of the hurdle. I've been there, it can be tough to carry.
Let's hope I can teach her not to care for that :)

Shadow and sweet water...