Tan booze and religion

This weeks blog is about the issues that have raised my attention in the last week. The first is fake tan, what's it all about? I say this even though I have been putting fake tan on all week so I am in no position to judge but what I found myself thinking was who started the whole fake tan thing and when did it become the norm to look orange? These days if you haven't got a tan you are singled out and labeled pasty or pale or milk bottle legs, this is actually the minority these days as the fake look is the majority. Did it all start from programmes like the only way is Essex and desperate scouse wives in which they look like the have been painting themselves with cuprinol. When did we become such a society that is obsessed with vanity? I used to be the minority that didn't believe in the whole fake tan thing and actually thought being pale made me unique but then I got succumbed to it and gave in and started putting on fake tan and I have to admit it does make me feel better about myself, which makes me feel are we really that influenced by the media and what you are expected to look like? The answer I believe is yes. Another issue that got my attention this week is alcohol and society, I have been going out at the weekend every weekend for the last few weeks and it became the normal routine that when it got to Friday night it was time to have a strong drink. Why is it you go through the whole week not even thinking about having a drink, I mean it doesn't even cross my mind yet as soon as its the end of the week i suddenly think oh I could just drink a glass of white wine. At the end of the day it is just another day right? Just because there is no work in the morning all of a sudden it's perfectly fine to go out and try and drink as much as you possibly can! These days people go out not just to have a few drinks but to drink as much as they possibly can as they want to feel drunk and out of control. It all seems such a good idea at the time as drinking makes you feel like a different person and it gives you confidence you never thought you had, but when you think about it is the person you become really you? When I don't drink I would never think about just taking to a random person yet when I've had a drink it seems perfectly acceptable to talk to anyone. It's just utter madness when I think about it and then there is the after effects of the night in which I wake up and have to think about what happened and sometimes can't remember things that have happened and this is actually scary. Yet we as a society continue to do this week in week out, as it is the norm these days. This weekend I haven't touched a single drop of alcohol. And I have actually got. Clear head for once and I actually feel good nut then at the back of my mind a part of me feels like I have missed out by not drinking or going out, even though I should feel good right? The next issue of the week is when I attended a christening today and it made me realise a few things, since when did we subconsciously become brain washed with religion? As I was sat there and the vicar was reading out the verses I realised I didn't want to read out loud what it said as it was basically saying that I believed in god and Christianity. Which I do not. At what point was I allowed to decide for. Yes,f if I wanted to read it out loud? The fact is I was not. Do they just assume that as I'm attending a christening that I must be religious? That I want to sing hyms about Jesus and that I believe in the bible nd everything it means? The final issue of the week is cyclists, now I sometimes go cycling myself and I have noticed that some people think that as they are on a cycle that they have the same rights as someone who is on fact, when in fact they have not, they are on wheels so therefore they are a moving vehicle. Yet they think that when the traffic light is in red that they can go straight across, which is madness, if a car came out it would see the bike at all. Some people on bikes just think they can do whatever they want and this actually worries me. If you don't feel safe on the road on a bike then stay on the path please!! Bit of. Rant this week sorry guys Sarah Xoxo