Thursday, August 21, 2008

Tenth Post

The Ugly Duckling

This is the Wikipedia version of the original story

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ugly_Duckling#Plot_summary

A mother duck hatches her eggs and, while most of her ducklings are normal, one is grey, too large, and too clumsy to fit in among the others. Though she tries to accept him, the entire barnyard realizes that he simply does not belong and after a period of harassment he leaves to fend for himself. He is sheltered by an old woman in her poor cottage, but her cat and her hen will not accept him and he is forced to set off once again on his own. He wanders for the entire summer and fall, for no one will take him in, and he nearly freezes to death in an icy pond. Though he is rescued by a human, he cannot live in captivity, and he returns to the wild.By the end of winter, he is miraculously still alive. He comes to a pond in a park or garden, where beautiful white swans are swimming. He is drawn to their beauty, though he has no reason to think that they will treat him better than anyone else has. Still, he thinks, even if they kill him, he must approach them. To his surprise, the beautiful creatures welcome and accept him; gazing at his reflection, he sees that he too is a swan. The children declare that he is the most beautiful swan of them all, yet he is not proud, for a good heart is never proud. Because of all that he suffered he now appreciates his happiness so much more.

Quite sure everyFUCKINGbody heard of this story before...but the story we were brought up to believe was a majorly ugly duckling was born and he/she was outcast into exile by other ducks cause it is just THAT damn ugly...but he/she went through life unlike any other ducks should and finally as the story progress that stupid duck was actually a swan

...and so there I was thinking, if the story WERE to continue, how would it be for this swan. I mean if he went back to his original family and go

Swan "HAH! who is the ugly one now??? in your face fuglies!!"

.....seriously, this story will take a twisted dark turn of event, the piece of shit suddenly become something that every duck aspires to be..

1) for so many years of its life no one gives a rat ass about him/her and suddenly he/she gets SO much attention and its now not used to it

2) since now he/she is HOT its time to experiment new things

3) when he/she still an ugly piece of shit it will be in a contant 'lack of attention' mood, now...umm..will be even MORE 'lack of attention'

4) and now he/she is something everybody wants a piece off..can choose..and can be a bitch

dont you think this story can actually drag on to be quite a story....

and the end of the story..he/she gets hit with a rock and became ugly again..then appologise for being so full of him/her self

Of course stories like this apply more for the real world...

imagine some ugly girl that suddenly become pretty...
or
an ugly guy that suddenly become famous..





1 comment:

Tania said...

We all have a little bit of a swan in all of us. It is whether you choose to see it or not that makes the difference.

As for me, I'd be lying when I said looks don't matter. Much to the contrary. It matters a bit too much sometimes that I wish I had been born sightless instead, at least I wouldn't have my conscience to grapple with.

So what's the deal with this UGLY goose/gander issue? Are society's beauty standards so fucking important anyway? Do I fucking even give a shit about mainstream beauty? No.

Because mainstream beauty has never done a single-fucking-thing except FUCK up lives of billions of people with the terrible fortune of simply being born in the WRONG place, at the WRONG time, in the WRONG body.

Why should we punish people for being people?

Mainstream standards of beauty are DEHUMANISING and immoral - turning us into nothing more than beasts with clothing that live to consume, FUCK, consume, and FUCK some more.

I say -- LOOK beyond the external. And I leave you with this, one of my most favourite quotes..

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"Good-bye", said the fox. "Here is my secret. It's quite simple: One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes"

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince

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