On beauty and ISM attitudes....

In May, or was it june?, there was a contest....one of those...and the winner was a certain Sarah-Jane Dias.A Mumbai-based Vj for channel [v]...24, i think...thin, beautiful...etc.

Today, she went back to school. The school where she had studied as an expat for the first few years of her life....

Indian School Muscat, in Muscat (duh).

This is where yours truly comes in.....
Yea, that esteemed institute is what i call second home...my school.

Today, the scant study time we get (it was an exam day...) before school was rudely inturrupted by a special assembly.
We grumbled, gathered in the field under a merciless sun....we knew why we were there, we'd seen the board that said "Indian School Muscat felicitates Miss Sarah-Jane Dias...."etc....

And we wondered where she was....hey maybe she's hiding behind the board!
lol.

Then she came.
And there was applause, the crowd parted for her.....
and in true ISM spirit, someone near her said...:Who ARE you man?
Yea, that's my school. Immature to the core.
There was something profound here, but i forget what it was.
I remember thinking.....was she always like this, all dressed to kill and all?
How cool would it be if, in true ISM spirit, she had turned up wearing jeans and a nice shirt?
Yea, cool...
where was i?
And then the principal spoke.....and in true ISM spirit....most of us weren't listening.
I don't think Sarah even knew our principal.....i think he was appointed afer she passed out.
But she did know Dique...(the vice principalwho i'd love to kill) ...and he had this HUGE smile on his face....all proud...
And then she spoke...
The thing is, now that she is what she is, i suppose we have all these preconceived nothions about her....these notions were probably strengthened when she gave some of us the typical celebrity wave as she walked past us....
She seemed quite nice...nice and normal..
Apologised for making us stand out in the heat....wished us luck for the exam...
As i said, there was something profound I thought there,something about appearances and beauty and ISM immaturity....but the math paper that reached me 10 minutes afterwards made me forget all that...
Some journalist i'll be...
And then, after she left, we were talking, and i forget how, and someone said: Something academic is best...
yea, it struck me then....we seem to have this outward impression that models and the like are just that: beautiful people....the whole thing about brains and beauty not going together....
So if i did some modelling in my spare time...(it's a thought....lets see what happens to it) would people think that of me too?
I hope not.....
Another lesson behind all this....
When you get famous, there are inaverdently people bitching about you.
this is a very sad but true fact of life.