lundi 22 juin 2009

How to be good and beautiful

Hello. My name is Laura Calenberg. I am a dummy at Christian Dior. Historically, I wanted to be on the cover of all fashion magazines, make lots of money and travel around the world. And my dream has come true ... At first I could not believe it! I never had much money, and now it was
done! I had a nice house, I could travel and I enjoy the fame ... that want more?




How do you see beauty? You change something in you if you could?

When I started my career at Dior, and 19 years, my vision of beauty was based on what others thought of me. If people around me myself as a model, is that I had to be pretty. I was successful, many contracts, so I was always beautiful! But I doubt in myself constantly. I wanted to identify with other women with whom I worked, some of the most beautiful women that we saw in the magazines, the most famous.

I had many admirers, so it gave me some insurance, since many men beautiful, smart and rich about me. I had success and many friends, and as I was becoming better known, I was increasingly asked, people recognize me on the street. So I ended up being convinced that I was beautiful, but I always try to be more.


I became self-centered, I was only interested in me and what I wanted. My favorite words were "I", "I"! Every day, many people were in my service to build my laces like to take my coat. Three people were hired to do work that requires one. All this fills me, gave me a sense of importance.

I am also become a 'hitch' work. I worked seven days a week because nothing was safe: I could lose my beauty and anytime I had to seize every opportunity to work. I was afraid of losing my job in a day.

I worked as I ended up getting sick. I fainted one day in the middle of a meeting and I am injured knee. I was arrested for the first time in my career and could not bear to be unable to work. I had difficulty seeing a parade of clothing that I had prepared happen without me. One day while I was bedridden and unable to work, I began to reflect on my life, to question my values and my ideas about beauty and that I had become.



I realized that my vision of beauty was false, ephemeral. The image I had of myself depended entirely on the opinions of others. And this opinion could change overnight. I always try to stay on the page, and it was exhausting. I told myself that if I become physically different and if I had less money, I would not necessarily be so successful. Is my boyfriend loved me for who I was, or for my money, my physique?

I realized that my whole world was hollow, empty. Having achieved all that I wanted, I was not filled. I missed something. The success and not enough money to fill a void I felt in me. Who, what for, do I live? I realized that I had built my life on things that could collapse, what was the mode, or the money I won, or my success.



I remembered an event that marked me: one day I went to a concert in a church, invited by a friend. I was not attracted by the church, God had no place in my life. But during this concert, I was touched by the music and a message left by the musicians. They explained the relationship that you may have with God through Jesus Christ. In myself, I readily admit that I was not that beautiful things in my life. I thought surely I could not live up to what God would see me. But musicians have explained that we did not win the favor of God, simply to receive the gift of forgiveness and God's love for us. I was impressed, I thought it must have unconditional love!

As I thought about that in my room in Paris, I asked myself how I arrived at this point in my life or lack of meaning. I realized that I had put God aside all these years and not living for me. My life was meaningless and true love. I asked God for forgiveness for my selfishness and I told him I wanted to live with him for him.


I felt that he alone can give a feeling deep, lasting and real than I am as I am loved, accepted with all my faults (internal and external). I was healed by him of my insecurity and my selfishness. I draw in my love finds me. And it gives me the freedom and strength to love and accept others.


What can we do feel, if not deeply feel that we are loved for who we are, regardless of the mode of passing time, the gaze of others? Christ has changed my life and I never regret my decision to follow him. He gave me a real beauty and esteem me just and good.


Our image of us

I became aware of the danger and vanity of appearance. When we are children, our friends that we return an image of us, good and bad. We integrate these messages and we will build from it an image of ourselves. We are confident we are on some complex issues and others. The trouble is that in most cases, we continue after adolescence to depend totally (and sometimes unconsciously) criteria of the company.

We realize the light-dependent on others for our image to us (or what we imagine to be the eyes of others). Most often, the outward appearance that will override that we really are. I "am" which I appear, or "I have therefore I am", as Goldman said. We measure our worth in what the media show us today. Unfortunately for us, the media always choose men and women of great events, or people who have everything materially, making us believe that it is they who represent the ideal standard.

The cult of the body has become commonplace. That is who is sculpting a dream body, push the effects of aging to the maximum. But to develop an image of ourselves from our physical appearance leads one to live in insecurity, fear of the opinions of others. This feeling makes us antisocial, difficult to access. Looking at because we need their compliments, their admiration. We become jealous and envious of the best (or best) of the winner.


This leads to egoism, individualism, the commitment to personal rights, because we are more concerned about ourselves than others. Much of our time and energy are busy with our eyes on ourselves. We are not in our skin, free to look to others. We do not see more the real priorities and we have trouble getting into deep and satisfying relationship because we live in our head in a world of appearances, deception and false pretenses. And all our identity and worth are reduced to something imperfect and ephemeral.

The external beauty is subjective and transitory. We can not escape the times. There will always be someone more beautiful than us. The criteria of today's society will not be those of tomorrow (if we lived in the late eighteenth century, it would take you 30 more pounds to be beautiful!). It is an endless quest. It gnaws us, it takes all our inner energy. This is very destructive psychologically. I saw around me and showed myself that. The only winners in the case are the industrial aesthetics.

As an adult, which will let us be the master of our image of ourselves? The other, the company? We no longer have to put us under a yoke of tyrannical and arbitrary. We can take over the reins of our lives. The mode can influence us, make us dream. It should not make us slaves. We belong to the group, having a job and friends that give us satisfaction, other than look good outside.


What is "true beauty"?

That is what is inside, our personality. It is the radiation that may emanate from us free, altruism and wisdom of our words and our actions. Our internal quality is our true radiance: humility, love, generosity, skill to others ... "What is the charm of a man is his kindness," says the Bible (book of Proverbs ch. 19 v. 22).




Our physical appearance is not dependent on us: we can not on our development and birth. We must accept who we are and work with someone you trust if we do not. But our internal characteristics depend only on us, our will, because we are not born nice, good, humble, one becomes one.

These are the attitudes of heart that people will retain a lasting after our death. They are eternal: "Grace is deceptive and beauty is vain. The woman who honors God is to be praised" (Book of Proverbs ch. 31 v. 30).

Jesus attacked with ferocity to all those who care for their appearance at the expense of true goodness: "Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, you cleanse the outside of the cup and dish, while the interior is filled of rapine and intemperance. blind Pharisee, cleanse first the inside of the cup so that the outside also become pure. You look like whitewashed tombs lime: they were out looking, but inwardly they are full of dead bones and impurities of any kind "(Gospel of Matthew ch.23 V. 25-27).

I am speaking to you who read me: you too, for your life, why you do not you turn to Jesus? He said: "Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, got home, I eat with him and he with me" (Apocalypse of John ch. 3 v. 20). Like me, you can receive his forgiveness and his love, now, by asking in prayer. God knows you better than yourself, and love you as (the) that you are and wants the best for you: the true inner beauty.

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