Triple L - Live Laugh Love

The typo in my blog title 'Mogullling- Model Biz' is in fact a convenient mishap, that I will elaborate on just now. I'm very sure it was not the first thing that stood out on the page, unless you're a 'grammar nazi' of course.

The triple L philosophy, is a popular slogan that speaks a lot of truth for me, because I've learned that life is way too short to sweat the details. I now do my utmost best to live in the now, and only to visit the future as opposed to living in it, living in the moment ensures I enjoy life more. Love, laugh, live are three words that have become a sort of mantra, and I remind myself to focus on those three things in whatever I'm doing. I know I'm not the only one that uses this slogan, and am pretty darn sure we all have our own interpretation of it, or at least a certain way it helps us individually.

For instance, the way I tend to use the slogan is; to love as if I've never had my heart broken, laugh loudly and from the core of my being (gee whizz do I love to laugh :D), live and enjoy every moment as if it were my last. To me, this is a constant reminder that life isn't that bad, especially when things don't seem to be happening the way I'd planned for them to. I've realized that a lot of what I experience usually has very little to do with what I may have planned, so I take it within my stride.

Imagine for a minute, having gone through a 3hour long fitting with the designer, a 1hour rehearsal and occassionally another 1hour dress rehearsal, with the show producer, 3hours of hair and makeup backstage, and to walk out onto the ramp and slip and trip as you make your entrance. It's not something you planned, and any professional model knows, the show goes on regardless, all that's left to do is to carry on walking as if the slip and trip did not even happen. The audience may gasp at the whole incident, but one has to be focused on getting the job done, and not on the comments of those looking on at you. Don't let the spectators deter you, chin up, and eyes on the prize.

I've never taken a spill, thank God, but have had my fair share of slips, trips, wardrobe malfunctions, ramp-traffic mishaps and the occasional choreography blunder. Never once in any of these situations, have I stopped in my tracks, turned around and headed backstage instead of walking it out, because I was too embarrassed by the blunder, that's unheard of. I have seen a model take a spill, that was caused by a number of unfortunate factors; a wet perspex surface, that had a 35 degree slope; wearing 7inch stilettos. She slipped and fell, landing on her wrist while attempting to break her fall, and after she'd gathered her wits about her, she slinked her way down the ramp looking as beautiful and graceful as she had looked before the fall. Now that's a professional.

Later on, we all flocked to her to make sure she was alright, and found the paramedics had had to bandage her hand, because the she had another show to walk, straight afterwards, and folks think this model biz is 'easy'.

Living in fear of failure is also something I consider a detriment to any goals and dreams I would want to pursue, therefore instead of remaining stagnant in the grips of fear, I use a statement a wise friend told me once; "Go in the direction of your fears, that is where your destiny lays waiting for you." Whatever challenges we face, we must always remember to be grateful that we could be worse off, and that no matter how bad it may seem, someone else is dealing with more than you could possibly take on.

We're all built for our own personal life experiences, believe it or not, and most times it may seem you cannot get through whatever trial you're facing, but you always do right? Regardless of circumstance, never let a spee-bump in your journey prevent you from loving, being loved, laughing heartily and living an abundant life, because most times that mountain you see is merely a molehill.

Walk on with the faith and hope that God's got the details sorted, while you enjoy and live every precious moment, take it within your stride, because noone will walk this journey for you!





No one will walk this journey for you, but YOU!

You may trip and slip, fall or take a mean tumble, and as long as you have breath in you, you can get up and make it through to the end of YOUR catwalk! Peace, love and strawberry cheesecake y'all!

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