(Note: No, I am not feeling blue! lol..!)


RAGDOLL


A doll.
At first porcelain.

Delicate, fragile, beautiful...

A plaything not for little girls, but for a man.

Fresh out of the box, she is exciting, new, unknown...

You treat her like she is golden- you take her everywhere, you show her off, you buy her new things to dress her up in, you are so proud of your new doll.

As time goes by however, you notice that maybe she is getting a bit ratty around the edges. A loose string here, the rosey cheeks are losing a little bit of the blush, the hair isn't near as perfect as it once was.

You start neglecting her. She starts becoming an it.

She is not so worthy of showing off anymore. It's just a thing. Maybe even a mistake you wish you wouldn't have spent so much time with.

You start eyeing other beautiful dolls .
Newer, fresher, better...

Ones you don't have, but you wish you did. Ones with a different shape, a different hair color, a different smile painted on her face.

Ones that even your friends have but you want...

Your old doll that has been with you, grown with you, been with you in good times and bad, now seems to be not so much a pretty porcelain doll, but one made of rags.

You discard it with maybe a small twinge of regret, but like trash nonetheless.

There she waits- at the bottom of the trashcan, hoping desperately that you will remember the good times you had when she was new and you loved her.

Instead, she tries to crawl out, to cry to you, to plead with you not to forget about her.

She hears you walking away, and knows she is destined to be just another used toy- just another rag doll you have thrown away- destined to be left alone...

Like so many others before...

She thought she was different, she thought she was special, she thought you would always love her...

She is not special. She is just a toy.

A used, destroyed, ratty toy that once was loved -or so she thought, when in truth, she was just another plaything to you, and now she is just another piece of trash..

Nothing but a rag doll after all...

nice piece...

wow...amazing story-telling.....i really liked it

and the comparisons between a woman and a man's doll is great

good write

Thank you guys so much! :)