Fading Dreams

MOST OF OUR INFORMATION we obtain through the sense of sight, right? Tall people and pretty people make more money because they are tall and pretty. People tend to be physically attracted to people whose facial geometry is similar to their own. Among humans, appearance is paramount. It influences one's personality. Certainly personality types tend to pursue certain careers. Strong and stolid officious types become police officers. Teachers tend to be detail oriented, priggish, anal. Same for librarians. These generalizations all contain more than a kernel of truth, according to research. Consider the overweight middle aged married woman. She was once attractive to her husband, but has been forced to adjust to a cooler relationship. She's horny as ever, but hubby won't put out as much. He goes to be early, and sleeps deeply. She tends to treat younger attractive men with condescending, dismissive contempt, secretly wanting, knowing she can never have them. They don't bother to look at her anymore. Once a year she joins the local gym,but her membership lapses by mid January. No matter. She deceives herself that she is still attractive, and has another nacho. Her only recourse is to drag her henpecked husband hither and yon, and long secretly for the long departed flattery of younger men. they will never come again.... Editor's Note: the preceding piece, repugnant that it may be, was submitted as spontaneous creative writing, not social commentary.