Drawers and Drugs

By nature, a symbol is something that can have different meanings to different people. For me, the drawers are an interesting symbol for the way I have often categorized my own personal life "organized chaos". It looks nice from the outside, but open them up, and each drawer is filled with whatever can be crammed inside.

The pills represent another, yet connected, state of our culture and society. If the drugs are legal than everything okay, right? Or, if we were to put more energy into taking care of ourselves instead of spreading ourselves so thin, would we need less medication? Nearly all illnesses today can be linked to stress. Perhaps if, as women, we spent more time feeling pretty simply for the sake of self-fulfillment we would find an alternative to the medicine bottle.