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In the end, if people only see the best side of us they place upon us expectations that we can't possibly fulfil. When that happens, a well-balanced self-image becomes impossible, and relationships become very difficult to sustain, for relationship is built on vulnerability as well as strength.
Reading today's news reports, I can't help feeling that a relatively quiet and normal life would suit someone like Susan Boyle far better than the life of instant worldwide name and face recognition that seems to have opened up before her.
I'm fairly sure she didn't enter Britain's Got Talent to become a cog in a huge money-making machine - to improve her lot, yes; to show what she could do, definitely; but not to become either a sign-on-the-line corporate slave or fodder for press headlines.
In the end, celebrity is a poor substitute for what we as human beings
really crave, which is not image but influence. 
Mal Fletcher is a social commentator and social futurist, global leadership speaker, broadcaster and author. He is chairman of the 
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We all to often think to much of what people think of us and try to be something different, to be a more rounded and balanced people. Rather than whom we really are. God tells us that "He has made us perfect in his image" so what are we doing, we are all perfect in Gods eyes and people should accept us for who we really are and not what they want us to be.
Its nice to be liked and to be the centre of attraction to some people this would be an answer to prayer but to others they would think that this is there worst nightmare, But let us not forget that we all have a purpose and a destiny that needs to be filled and what ever Gods calling on out life he will give us sufficient knowledge and understanding for what ever we face.