Not sure how many of you have kept up with the ' Royal Couple's" William and Kate. They have been in many news articles during their trip to the Pacific Rim.
But what has taken over the media is about pictures taken of Kate , more then 4 football fields away . With a high tech lens , of her breast. A personal moment with her husband. Then the photo's were sold to rag newspapers.
We might want to take a moment and look into why these photo'swould be valuable to the rag papers. Taking the privacy of anyone to a monetary scale. We are the one's wanting to see them. We have taken the personal privacy of anyone on the planet for sale so we can ' sneak a peak'. Of what? Of who? And why?
I use " we'. And maybe you feel you are not among the ' we'. I might feel I am not among the 'we'. But if we take a moment and look into
our Soul's , there are times , maybe when we were young or stupid. But we are or were among the 'we'.
Be the change, take a honest look inward and know when those moments we have been guilty to want to violate others personal and private moments just for a weak moment of selfish , short term ' peak'.
And maybe then , as we take personal responsibility for what is happening out in the world, there will be more compassion, care for other and honor people's privacy.
I call privacy " a personal moment one chooses to share with those who are close and and will understand the moment as very special."
What do you think?
I couldn't agree with you more. I haven't seen the photos nor wish to. To have anyone's private moments snatched up and exposed to the world is conscionable!
ReplyDeleteThanks Christine for sharing your perspective. It is an interesting world
DeleteHi Madonna. I'm sure, as you said, there have been times when I've contributed to the selling of someone's privacy. As we get older, I think we learn how important our own privacy is and because of that learn to respect others privacy, whether they are in the public eye or not. If more people felt the same toward personal privacy, these "rag" mags would go out of business. Unfortunately, there are too many people that like to escape their own lives and enjoy "feeding" off of others. It's very easy to ignore feeling down or bad about your own situation when you can read about someone else facing an embarrassing or horrific moment. Sad, but the only things we can do is educate and don't participate!
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