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Why is it human nature to want more? Why is there always the urge in life for the bigger and better. Bigger and better everything. Even when we don't need more. Eyes are bigger than the mouth. Access to the Excess. Junkie XL sumed it all up right in one statement in a song. "Access to the excess. Everybody want more when they really need less."

It reminds me of something I saw at one point on television although I can't remember what the product was. It goes something like, "Want a better job? Get a new one. Want a better house? Buy a new one. Want a new wife? Get a new one."

Now, I have to say that I am kinda insulted by this ad, because not only I can't remember their product even though the ad was obviously memorable, but I am also insulted at the fact that there was no memorable way to remedy that statement. "Want a better wife? Get a new one." Hey! TRY AND WORK IT OUT! Don't get a new one. This is not Wifey XP here... and what if the new wife was like running Wifey Vista? O.o People are too eager to throw in the towel and the vows for stupid s**t. What about the child watching the tv and hears that statement as many times as it is played during prime time cindication? How is he going to view marriage when he hears that it is ok for one to get a new wife while he sees his parents fighting and separating and eventually divorcing.

All of the other things stated in that ad are justifiable. Don't like what your doing at work? Sure! Get a new job that you enjoy getting up to in the morning. Want a new house that isn't falling apart or too small or in a better neighborhood? Sure! That is a justifyable want.

Now, I cannot accurately remember the "Want a new _____? Buy a new one." But even if it was plastic surgery then it is semi-justifiable. I understand that you are the person that has to look at yourself 24/7 that has to look at some unsightly flaw and deal with the fact that someone else is also seeing that flaw (even if they view it differently.) Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but I am the one who is the one that is being viewed that way, and I don't see what everyone else sees. But does anyone wake up in the morning or go through the day for that matter, without thinking, I wish I could get this toned, get that lifted, why was I born with my mother/father's such and such. I only said that plastic surgery was semi-justifiable. I see both sides. Now a days getting something done to you by a doctor is a right of passage for rich suburbia female teens... sad. I think that plastic surgery should be used for medical reconstructive purposes only. Like burn victims. Or babies born with abnormalities. Plastic surgery has been so glamorized, so hollywood that most people don't realize the actual good that it can do for someone who wants a normal life again.

Access to the excess. Call it jealousy, call it greed, call it want. It is what it is.