Hanging with my daughter in the late afternoon, we were stretching in the workout room. She started talking to me about a video trailer she saw on you tube for the documentary type movie, "Girl Model". I watched the trailer with her and I told her it might be a good movie for us to watch together as it dealt with the selection of body attributes and the image of models.
We talked about people and the different life conditions they live in. We talked how big the world is and how it leaves plenty of room for many types of exploitations. This films apparent plot is about the desire of girls from economically depressed areas to be hired as models and taken to other countries for work. The trailer ends with the girl clearly distraught and crying.
My daughter is very special to me. She is currently editing her first book. I know, I am in shock, but that is how her brain works, intelligent, motivated and organized. She told me it is over 70,000 words. She writes all the time and it is the thing that she likes to do as if it's her zone out time. I have read bits and pieces and she has meticulously created characters and a whole world. Knowing that she uses life as information, and that can shape her writing, I thought this movie may be beneficial.
An example of her taking a comfortable spot while camping, as you guessed, writing her book. She never talks about writing, she just does it.
As such I am going to watch this movie with her. With her level of thinking and her age, I think it's important to look at this girls model story. I'm trying to support her to be a strong and knowledgable girl who will soon be a woman. A woman who takes into account other people's life experience, not in judgement, but in a perspective that gives her humility for the life she has.
I was cautious, as from the trailer it doesn't lay out the end theme and I suspected it would end in drug use and sexual exploitation. All topics that should not be avoided at her age. I feel it would be something I have a duty as a parent to freely discuss.
Clearly I don't want anyone to be exploited in this way. I may have little impact on the world but I have impact on something I call my three feet world. It's the centering and focus on the things I can legitimately impact and they are within my reach. My wife, my daughter and my son are all within my reach. Instead of calling life hopeless, which many people do, I work on my three feet world and I invest my soul in its endeavor.
We talked about people and the different life conditions they live in. We talked how big the world is and how it leaves plenty of room for many types of exploitations. This films apparent plot is about the desire of girls from economically depressed areas to be hired as models and taken to other countries for work. The trailer ends with the girl clearly distraught and crying.
My daughter is very special to me. She is currently editing her first book. I know, I am in shock, but that is how her brain works, intelligent, motivated and organized. She told me it is over 70,000 words. She writes all the time and it is the thing that she likes to do as if it's her zone out time. I have read bits and pieces and she has meticulously created characters and a whole world. Knowing that she uses life as information, and that can shape her writing, I thought this movie may be beneficial.
An example of her taking a comfortable spot while camping, as you guessed, writing her book. She never talks about writing, she just does it.
As such I am going to watch this movie with her. With her level of thinking and her age, I think it's important to look at this girls model story. I'm trying to support her to be a strong and knowledgable girl who will soon be a woman. A woman who takes into account other people's life experience, not in judgement, but in a perspective that gives her humility for the life she has.
I was cautious, as from the trailer it doesn't lay out the end theme and I suspected it would end in drug use and sexual exploitation. All topics that should not be avoided at her age. I feel it would be something I have a duty as a parent to freely discuss.
Clearly I don't want anyone to be exploited in this way. I may have little impact on the world but I have impact on something I call my three feet world. It's the centering and focus on the things I can legitimately impact and they are within my reach. My wife, my daughter and my son are all within my reach. Instead of calling life hopeless, which many people do, I work on my three feet world and I invest my soul in its endeavor.
