I spent my Sunday and Monday afternoons aboard a bus, taking two 4-hour trips that could have been mind-numbingly boring if I didn’t allow my mind to wander while looking out the rain-drenched window. For some reason, banners on the streets always get my attention. Well, that reason could be that they are sometimes so huge, unlike vinyl banners you may see on smaller, closed spaces. I saw familiar faces, some new announcements, some funny adverts, some mouth-watering pictures of foods/dishes that I wouldn’t normally go for. But looking out the window like that, with the bus going some kilometers per hour, if you let your mind wander enough, it could bring you to places you didn’t intend to go to.

Sometimes people come to a moment where they think they’ve found that one last chance to be someone else. And they go for it. When it doesn’t work out, they spend the rest of their lives looking back over their shoulder, at what might’ve been.  -  Allie Keys, from the TV series Taken

I saw this banner of a celebrity who used to have really dark skin and is now sporting a much, much fairer one. “You can be like me,” is what it says.  The ad was skin deep. But it makes you think that people do want to be something else sometimes. Beyond the superficiality, there is an inherent discontentment in every person’s life that somehow gets the better of us sometimes.  There’s always this sense that we can be something better, no matter how hard we try, no matter how we strive to take another step forward. Of course, people’s ambitions differ. Looking at that ad made me think of a lot of things that I want to change in myself. It just so happens that having whiter skin is no longer something I covet at all.

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