We live in a world where the things
we ‘see’ play a major role in determining how we ‘perceive’ ourselves. People
use the things they see around or other people to judge themselves. Comparing
themselves to others in terms of what they own and how they look.
The situation is reaching (actually
has reached) an alarming stage. People today are taking to all sorts of
surgical operations to enhance their beauty – from breast to butt enlargement
or the reverse; skin toning or ‘bleaching’; operation to make their nose
pointed and so on. Some people have even been known to go as far as having a
complete ‘face-off’.
These and other such issues were
the matters discussed on the programme, Woman’s World on TV Continental when I
and two other people were the guests.
It was recorded on the 14th of
Oct. 2013. The programme has since been aired several times.
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| On set at TV Continental |
But let us look at a few things
from the discussion.
Why do women take to skin bleaching? (or toning as some would like to mildly put it) Why do some women who are
naturally big want to become slim overnight? And so on.
While there is nothing inherently
wrong with someone working to enhance how beautiful they look, it is important
to note that most people generally have self-esteem issues and that is why they
would want to do anything to look like someone else. And the TV is not helping
in this regard. You see someone on TV and that person becomes your ‘model’ for
beauty and its definition
One of the points I made on the
programme was that no matter how smart we are, we cannot be smarter than God
and definitely cannot be more creative than God. We should learn to accept
ourselves as the image of God that we are and not unnecessarily go out of our
ways to change our looks. This particularly affects women more than men.
Another point of view I posited was
that beauty is first a thing of the mind. It is first a knowing and that knowing
can then be expressed through feeling and not the other way round. That is
where it all begins the mind. And also it (i.e. beauty) is first a personal
definition. In other words, you are the one that will look at yourself and
conclude whether you are beautiful or not and this conclusion then determines
how you carry and present yourself, which basically is what ‘self-esteem’ is
all about – remember that “beauty is in
the eye of the beholder.”
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| Mr. Motivator, unleashing... |
In the final analysis therefore,
there is no one (or woman to be more specific) that is not beautiful. YOU ARE
FEARFULLY AND WONDERFULLY MADE.
See pictures taken during the
interview.
ABIODUN MABADEJE is a multi-talented public/motivational speaker with
expertise in the areas of personal development, leadership, relationship/family
life and author of 7 published books.
Call me for your next event and you
would be glad you did.
234 – 8023771690, 234 – 8135891291,
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