Eliminate the Fakery

When I see someone with fake Louis Vuitton, Gucci, Coach, Jordan or Burberry products on, I instantly know something about that person.

• They are willing to be fake in order to satisfy people's opinion about them
• They are worried more about what other people think of them than what they think of themselves
• They are allowed no celebration if they ever received the real thing (since it's supposed to have been real this whole time)
• This is not the only arena in which they are deceiving people

The only difference between real and fake is what you are willing to give up for it, which most of the time is your dignity. And that decision speaks volumes about your character. The person with the real Louis Vuitton purse sacrificed, pursued, earned that purchase. She can have pride in the truth, unlike her counterpart who is continually anxious someone will notice their fakery while they belittle what it truly means to own what they imitate.

It's more disappointing than anything. Equivalent to the women who wear fake hair who don't realize how beautiful they already are. Society has confused the idea of beauty and it's evident everywhere. And like most things, it's a simple shift in mentality, a slight on the truth. For example, make-up is meant to enhance beauty, not create it. Your body is to make the clothes look good, not for the clothes to make your body look good. A tight t-shirt on a muscular man makes it irrelevant what the shirt says because it enhances him. Just like high heels enhance a woman's legs; they don't create something that's not already there.

I say all that to say this. If you want it, go get it. Don't settle.