Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we should dance.
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TV shows, fashion magazines, newspapers, and the Internet dazzle with perfect and gorgeous pictures of luxury life, but we don’t know, and many don’t care, about the reality behind the scenes. We enjoy the glamorous images without going backstage. If you have made up your mind to step on the fashion runway, you have to move forward gracefully and look ahead with confidence while managing an abusive and decadent reality. On the dance floor, you move with a bewitching smile on your face and grace the audience would die for. Being confident enough and too proud to expose your weakness, you show unruffled composure instead, giving mixed signals to your surroundings. It makes them treat you as a powerful and strong personality. Once I heard a wise saying from a passerby met by chance (I’m sure that was a blessing given to me to learn from): “You’ve got your security, if you are smart.” If you have confidence and are smart enough not to expose your fear and weakness, you avoid getting washed away by a huge wave of jealousy.
I recently came across a quote by Robbert Oustin: “Life is like a hot bath. It feels good while you're in it, but the longer you stay in, the more wrinkled you get”. And I want to add more: “The longer you stay, the more wrinkled your soul becomes”. Our body is an exact copy and reflection of our inner being.
Your picture or your personality may give different signals to people, but you have to step up to take the challenge of always being above. It’s a long road which has no way back and everyone picks up his/her own path… My choice is a breathtaking, captivating, passionate and irreproachable dance without deception, jealousy and with a clear conscience.
Hi Victoria. I'm enjoying your honest and insightful reflections on life. I collect quotes too. One I heard that relates to this post is: “When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too." It our society, so focused on appearing to be strong, confident, or whatever, it seems we sometimes forget the basic truth that if you take the time and trouble to live a life of character, one that you can feel good about, everything else will follow--you won't have to think about projecting any "trait"--it will just be there.
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Hey V! What advice would you give to those of us who aspire to get invited to the runway? Those of us who are sitting on the sidelines? Immobilized by our own personal fears or shyness? Complacent in our comfortable narcissistic world of the known....
ReplyDeleteHello my Dear Friend! Thank you for these questions. It makes sense. I believe it's a problem of all mankind despite age, sex, nation... Everyone should find his/her own recipe / formula that works best for him/her. What I know for sure is that our main enemy is our fear. Don't let it possess your soul and body. You should be natural exposing unique and inimitable beauty of your nature. The major goal is to conquer fear that is deep inside. I bet you know this and I'm not the one to advise people :) It's about finding your own path...
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“Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.”
ReplyDeletePeter T. Mcintyre
The confidence is really very important.And belief in your own inner spirit.Fall seven times and stand up eight-this Japanese proverb here.
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