beauty's invisible trap

A part of my professional life is involved and engaged in looking after a boutique talent agency.

I'd like to say that we "discover and develop" talent. But after doing the job for awhile now, it would be more apt to say that we really simply help focus, magnify and channel for the individual, the people we call "the talent", what is inherent in them. And then we emphatically add, "... but you have to continuously work at it, too."

To be born with physical beauty, irregardless whether they are male or female, is a gift. And like any other gifts, it comes with responsibilities.

And it is here in the responsibility side and the lack of it that their journey begins.

Maybe because they have been given the face that most people would give a second or even a third look that they start to think that that's the only thing necessary for life. But who can blame them in embracing this world view when people have made life easier for them :- )

But what happens when time takes all that beauty and youth away? And the people they unconsciously rely on moves on?

To be appreciated and to receive appreciation is not a sin.

But "how" did one receive the appreciation when it led to being lazy about life itself? For not performing in school? To not finishing college when you are already in your mid-20s? Worse, not even high school?

Who erred when this happens?

Does being born with a beautiful or handsome face a talent?

Seriously. A talent?

People in our position, people who man talent agencies, is faced with this very unique challenge - how can we help these individuals adjust to the reality that life will throw challenges at them. That beauty, not handle properly, is a trap in its own.

We earn our dues because it takes sincerity to make people, who were made to believed that the whole world revolves around them, realize that they have to work in order for their dreams to be realized. Simply showing up does not cut it.

It takes mad creativity to make people, who were made to believed that the whole world revolves around them, realize that they are now competing with other people who were also made to believed that the whole world revolves around them too :- )

It takes awhile for most to understand that competition dynamic.

For those who get it, they become better and far more influential.

For those who do not get it, they fall into beauty's invisible trap and their confusion... painful... education begins :-)

"... why think like mere men?"