Why Striving To Be A Role Models Is Better Than Striving To Be A Model

As stated in earlier blog posts, we are living in a digital age where everyone is on their phones 24/7.

We know where celebrities are eating at, what they're wearing and they're latest magazine cover. And not just celebrities, other people we also don't know. Usually those people tend to be models, fitness junkies, or generally people we don't know but wish we did. For most girls, it's other girls that we wish we looked like.

That is totally normal.

What isn't normal is feeling bad about yourself because you don't look like a Victoria Secret's model. But again, that is the world we live in today. It is a world where your worth is based solely on your lools and nothing else. So girls continue to kill themselves over dieting, cleansing, working out all the time and not feeling confident about themselves because they feel they need to look a certain way to be beautiful. Our society makes you feel like you have to look like or be a model to get the guy or just get a lot of likes (which is like... SO important.)

Haven't you guys ever noticed how many young girls are striving to be models nowadays? I feel like the age girls are posing for pictures with random photographers on the beach in their teeny bikinis are just getting younger and younger. Maybe it's just because I was an athlete and all that modeling stuff never appealed to me but today I feel like EVERYONE is a model. I scroll down my newsfeed on Instagram or Facebook and it's all girls doing photoshoots and putting in their Instagram bio's *_______ agency* like it's their biggest accomplishment in life.

I know modeling is not as easy as it may look. Since I have been injured I have done a lot of photoshoots and commercials, I know it's hard work and I'm not saying it's not. I am in no way shape or form dissing models of any sort I'm just saying there are a lot bigger goals in life than posting pictures of your a** on the beach on Instagram. I don't care what you're trying to convince me of, that's not any kind of art to me.

But so many young girls get caught up on Instagram, Brandy Melville and the Kardashians bullsh*t that we forget 1. that role models actually still exist and 2. we should be striving for bigger things that will last our whole lives not just a couple years in our 20s. There is always going to be someone younger than you that will replace you. You are a dime a dozen in the entertainment world.

With the media clouding our judgement we forget about role models. The role models are the ones that play such an important part in our society. They are supposed to lead the way for young minds and help guide them in the right direction. They aren't doing it because it's "cool" or they look "sexy" or even because they get something out of it. Role models act a certain way because they are more interested in inspiring people with their minds instead of with their bodies.

If you ask a young person in between ages 18-25 who their role model is, what do you think they would say? I can give you the top two answers..

1. A Movie Star

2. A Model

When was the last time you heard a young person say I really look up to *a political figure* or some kind of activist? I feel like it's almost unheard of. Kids nowadays look up to people the most becayse of what they look like. That is why so many kids are striving to be models because they want to look and live a life like the person they look up to.

I ask you to challenge yourself to re-evaluate your role models and why you are fond of them. Do you fall under any of these categories? If you do, then I suggest taking a really good look at why you like them as much as you do and then throw out anything that has to do with physical appearance then assess how much you still like them.

The most inspiring people and role models I have met through my 23 years on earth have not been the celebrities or the models, they have been some ordinary people and some Olympians who truly should be someone you strive to be like. Strive to be like them mentally, I challenge you to think and act like an Olympian. Stop killing yourself by trying to be thinnier than a model or looking down on yourself because your boobs, butt, etc doesn't look like a movie star.

Anybody can take off their clothes and be some kind of model in their own mind. But it takes an extremely special person to become a ROLE model who leaves behind a legacy that is much more than what's on the outside of your body and much about what kind of person you are within. And all the people you inspire around you. How you are helping them better their life and many more with your decision to become someone that someone looks up to?

Today's the day, be the ROLE model that you would want your daughter, friend, cousin, etc look up to.

All the cards that you hold you hold within yourself, the question is how are you going to play those cards you are dealt?

I'm excited to find out....

Xoxo,

A Guy's Girl