The Product

 Are you a person or a product?  A person is someone trying to become who they really are.  A product is something that is trying to be attractive, to be noticed, to be wanted.  If you live as a product, you then package yourself in a certain way to become attractive, noticed, and wanted.  You don’t much care for the unadorned you, or the smart you, the quiet you,  or the caring you, since no one seems to want or notice you much.  You look in a magazine and see a body, a person who becomes your model.  You exercise, buff up, shop, dress in a certain manner, to become the package over against other packages, like so many products on a grocery shelf or sales lot.  Many people are shopping for a certain product in partnering.  They have in mind what the “look” has to be.  Are they interested in knowing the real you?  Are you?  That can take a lifetime, as we are mysteries to one another at times and even to ourself.  Love? That takes patience. Product shoppers lack patience.