looking good need not mean feeling good...

Yesterday's death of TV star Kuljeet in a tragic suicide prompts this post. In the recent past her close friend, Nafisa Joseph had done the same. A chilling statement by Nadira, the star of yesteryears which is doing it's rounds of TV channels conveys that she considered herself the most lonely person in Mumbai. Tragic...

Bollywood and TV stars enjoy iconic status amongst the masses and need to live up to images that exist of them. One feels sorry for the kind of prison they invite onto themselves in exchange for name, fame and glamour.It is very difficult to be centred when one is constantly living in a world guided by diet fads, style statements, lifestyle statements and so on.Every move is open to public scrutiny and life is a constant struggle to live up to various peer pressures and expectations.

Significant that Kuljeet is reported to have written that she could not cope with life's pressures and hence the drastic step.Sad, should serve as a wake up call to others who live off-centred lives , constantly pretending to be something that they are not.
Kuljeet's vulnerability was kept under wraps under a well-disguised poise and confidence that her lifestyle demanded of her.Which could be true of so many of us, a vulnerability carefully camouflaged under various management sytems....

Too heavy a price she seems to have paid.

for me , such events shatter old myths...looking good need not mean feeling good...however feeling good about oneself can work wonders on one's appearance and outlook...

God Bless You , Kuljeet and Nadira. May your soul discover its answers on your onward journey.