Models

I know a few people who want to be models when they grow up. That's great. But what will they be modeling? They will probably, hopefully, be modest fashion models. But that is not an easy thing to do, so I worry.

I know more than a few people who look up to fashion models. Because of who they are? What they model? I'm not sure, but I still don't see any problem with that.

I know many, many, people who see a beautiful model and although they see her moral flaws, wish that they could be exactly where she is in life, looking and feeling exactly like she does.
This is where a problem arises.

Let's remember the definition of a model:

Model
mod·el (mŏd'l) pronunciation
n.

1. A small object, usually built to scale, that represents in detail another, often larger object.
2. A preliminary work or construction that serves as a plan from which a final product is to be made: a clay model ready for casting.
2. Such a work or construction used in testing or perfecting a final product: a test model of a solar-powered vehicle.
3. A schematic description of a system, theory, or phenomenon that accounts for its known or inferred properties and may be used for further study of its characteristics: a model of generative grammar; a model of an atom; an economic model.


What are our models? Who or what are we modeling ourselves after? Are we testing and perfecting, or waiting and breaking? What mold are we pushing ourselves into? Or are we making our own mold? We have to find our models, or we'll mold into the same shape that everyone else molding into.