Roopa Swaminathan’s Blog

Readers may know that I have posted here before on my ardent desire to see Brangelina go away. I am so, so, so sick of them.

But turns out, it may never happen.

If I had a hard time living a life where I constantly doubted my self-worth and am often plagued with questions like ‘What have I accomplished in my life so far?’ and “What is my worth in life?’ – I can tell you this much. The birth of Brangelina’s new twins has put paid to even a modicum of self esteem I may have ever had.

Photos of Brangelina’s twins fetched an insane 14 million dollars!

14 fucking million dollars!

I don’t think with a double Masters degree and a prestigious National award to my name that I will ever see one tenth of that amount in my life time!

I have constantly been upstaged by others. Others who I have felt were less qualified than me and others who I have often whined have had more breaks and luck that I ever did.

But to be outdone by two toddlers at birth?

I don’t know whether to be appalled by a world where magazines like People and Hello actually pay this kind of ridiculous money to publish pictures of two five pound babies who look nothing more than squished meatballs? Or that we live in a world where People pay that kind of money because they know that there are millions out there who will buy their magazines. Only to see pictures of these two babies who at this age can be interchanged with any number of babies newborn around the world.

What a SICK, SICK and SAD world we live in.

Either way – yesterday was not a good day for me.

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