"I’m sick of always looking like Darth Vader next to Sunshine
Barbie. Life’s to short, but you make it feel so long."--Blair Waldorf
Oh Blair! :( You were never the Darth Vader. You are by far, the most interesting character in the series because you are real. :)
The show is trashy. But I do love watching Blair Waldorf. Where would you find sunshine Barbies around the youth of today?
Nowhere. We are all Darth Vaders. (Or Darth Vaders dressing up as Barbies)
Among all the characters of the show, Blair is the one who has the most insecurities. Her insecurities define me, define us. Define what we all have felt and currently feeling. In a world which shows you all the glamor, your insecurity grows. You see the media flaunting the Sunshine Barbies, the uber cool It girls who look like soulless plastic dolls. That's right, Plastic. Think about it, we look at them, we envy them, we want to be there. But where is there? And who are they? Are they real? Or are they just manufactured beauty that is skin deep?
Look around you, you see your fellow Darth Vaders because that's who we are. We are more real and more human than any of those. We are the insecure. Yet we continue to live and love and laugh, because, hey, who ever said the world was fair? Let them have the beauty, and we can have the freedom to BE. I'd rather experience these bouts of insecurity because they make me who I am. They define me and enable me to be something MORE.
Imagine being a perfect Sunshine Barbie...sounds fun? But after all the parties and magazines and shows, you may find yourself LOST. Who are you in the world of plastic reality? What have you become? Will you find that answer by staying a Sunshine Barbie?
But to a Darth Vader, an Ugly Duckling, we get to find answers. We can find answers because we have the freedom of being simple, ordinary. We can be extraordinary and happy about ourselves. We have insecurities at the beginning but we shed that and learn and become better people. Sunshine Barbies get to be that for all their lives, threats are omnipresent because they live by their beauty, and as we know, beauty fades.
