Can hypocrisy ever be avoided? I don't think so, considering the dualistic nature of the reality we experience here on Earth. I just demonstrated the conflict in my own thinking when I talked about "embodying our situations." It is true our experiences shape our appearance. However, by pointing out the situations of others that I don't want to be in, I boosted myself up in thinking I must be in a good one! The very thing I complain about others doing in my "ideal man" page.
I may have slammed motherhood, ever so slightly, but only because I have been regretting not thinking about it seriously when I was young. I honestly didn't mean to make it sound like the motherhood situation is a bad one. I have seen how becoming a parent has softened friends and colleagues in very positive ways. I also happen to have a lot of women friends who are hot mamas (literally and figuratively), and look awesome!! In order to get to the place of appreciating my situation, though, I needed to reject theirs for a minute.
The fact is the differences between our situations are illusory; we are one, all part of the human experience. Cezanne defined a painting as a two-dimensional object covered in paint. We are all depicted in different forms, but ultimately those two-dimensional representations of our lives are only a part of the whole, this canvass of earthly experience.
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