When I was growing up, advertisements used to be a straightforward matter. Someone would come on air and tell you to buy X product because it was good for you or it did what you wanted. Accompanying the ad were jingles, or if it was on TV, there were prominent and seductive displays of the product. Bottom line was that at the end of the ad, you knew exactly what had been advertised and why you should think about buying it.

Fast forward to 2009 in America, and advertising has become...

This roller coaster called life has a way of making you forget to remember that no one else apart from you is concerned about you. It's your life and only you understand what you want out of it.

I have been jolted by this reality time and time again.
No one is who they seem to be at first
No where is what it looks like at first

And gullible little me is caught in the middle of trying to understand who or what each person is and where the mirage i saw

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