Models:
The present day young adults are greatly fascinated by Models. They want to live like them, walk like them, talk about them, dream about them & earn like them. The life of a present day model is not flashy cars , limelight, pageants or dining/sleeping with celebrities or dignitaries. It is a most unnatural life full of miseries, lacking happiness & satisfaction. Since it is body oriented, the active life of a model is short inviting vices in to it all the time. I liked some lines of Paulo Coelho which I am sharing with you.
'It's still three hours until the fashion show, and the other models are eating salad, drinking tea & talking about where they will be going next. They come from various countries, are about the same age as her -teens- and probably have two things on their minds: getting a new contract that evening and finding a rich husband.'
They know their beauty routine, Before sleeping, apply sundry creams, to cleanse pores and keep skin moisturized, thus, from early on, making their skin dependent on artificial substances to maintain an equilibrium. In the morning, they apply more cream and more moisturizer. They drink a cup of black coffee with no sugar, and eat some fruit and fiber, so that any other food they consume during the day will pass quickly through. Then a few stretching exercises before setting off in search of work. They 're too young to start working out in a gym and besides, their bodies might start taking on masculine contours. They get on scales three or four times a day. They get depressed each time the pointer on the scales tells them they've gained another ounce.
Their dreams go beyond being a model, however; they know that soon they will be overtaken by new faces, new trends,and so urgently need to show that they can do more than just stride down a cat walk. They eagerly try to get a screen test, so that they can demonstrate that they have got what it takes to become an actress-their great dream.
It's best to get what they can now,before time passes and the model crosses the dangerous age barrier of twenty,by which time,her skin will have been spoiled by too many moisturisers, her body ruined by too much low-calorie food, and her mind already affected by the remedies she takes to inhibit appetite and which end up leaving eyes and head completely empty. They cling to their mobile phones for dear life, as if these were about to offer some divine revelation or at least put them in contact with the Higher World to which they dream of ascending and from where they'll be able to look down on all those pretty faces and where they will be transformed in to stars.The parents are proud that their daughters are off to a good start and regret their initial opposition to such a career, after all their daughters are earning money and helping the family. Their boyfriends get upset but keep a lid on their feelings because it is good for one's ego to be seen going with a professional model.The girl's friends envy them either openly or secretly.
These young models go to any party they are invited to.They behave they are much more important than they are, knowing, deep down, that they would love someone to break through the artificial barrier of ice they create around themselves. They look at older men with a mixture of attraction and revulsion; they know that such men have the necessary money to help them make the big leap, but at the same time do not like to be understood as high-class whores. Their preferred drink is a glass of mineral water. They have ideals,dreams & dignity, but all these things will vanish one day, when they can no longer disguise the onset of cellulite. They make secret pact with themselves never to think about the future. They spend much of what they earn on beauty products promising eternal youth.
They acquire hundreds of business cards,meet well dressed men who make proposals of work they know to be false,but they phone them now & then to keep in touch,conscious that they might need help one day,even though that help comes with a price. They all fall in to same traps. They all dream of easy success, only to realize it doesn't exit.
They sleep badly because of various pills they take.They listen to stories of anorexia-the commonest illness in their world, a kind of mental disturbance caused by an obsession with weight and one's physical appearance, and which culminates in the body rejecting all nourishment. They say it won't happen to them, but never notice when the first symptoms appear.
They step out of childhood straight in to a world of glitz and glamor,without passing through adolescence. To other people, they seem to lead a fairy-tale existence. And for awhile they too believe that this is the real meaning of life; after all they have almost everything they once envied in the girls who appeared in magazine sand cosmetic ads.
With a little discipline they can save some money, until after a careful daily examination of their skin,they discover the first mark left by age. After that they know it is a matter of time before a designer or a photographer notices the same thing.
Their days are numbered.......
Since their inner-self could not be developed as their vision is skin deep & out ward, even slight success goes in to their head inflating their ego. Negative traits get easily in to them. Jealousy, vanity arrogance impatience & loneliness slither in to them. They can't easily adjust with others. Community living is an impossible dream for them. Their lives are of perpetual loneliness. Friendship, marriages break easily because of ego & lone-living. Living for others is a difficult proposition. Self oriented life breeds many mental diseases. Drugs, Depression & Suicides are most common. I wouldn't advise any sweet soul on this path...............Pl direct young aspiring girls to read this if you know any of them......
Role-Models:
When personality is described in mundane fashion it starts from shoes to the unnecessary piece of cloth round the neck popularly called neck tie. Personality is far different from this shallow definition.Personality is to be grown from inside out.
