80 “Packing” a Person

名称：80 “Packing” a Person
内容简介：
晨读英语美文 文化百科
[00:05.46]A person, like a commodity, needs packaging.
[00:10.61]But going too far is absolutely undesirable.
[00:14.87]A little exaggeration, however, does no harm
[00:18.92]when it shows the person's unique qualities to their advantage.
[00:23.95]To display personal charm in a casual and natural way,
[00:28.54]it is important for one to have a clear knowledge of oneself.
[00:34.13]A master packager knows how to integrate art and nature without any traces of embellishment,
[00:42.00]so that the person so packaged is no commodity but a human being, lively and lovely.
[00:49.88]A young person, especially a female, radiant with beauty and full of life,
[00:56.12]has all the favor granted by God.
[00:59.07]Any attempt to make up would be self-defeating.
[01:02.03]Youth, however, comes and goes in a moment of doze.
[01:06.29]Packaging for the middle-aged is primarily to conceal the furrows ploughed by time.
[01:12.42]If you still enjoy life's exuberance enough to retain self-confidence
[01:18.33]and pursue pioneering work, you are unique in your natural qualities,
[01:24.01]and your charm and grace will remain.
[01:27.08]Elderly people are beautiful if their river of life has been,
[01:32.01]through plains, mountains and jungles, running its course as it should.
[01:36.71]You have really lived your life which now arrives at a complacent stage of serenity
[01:43.28]indifferent to fame or wealth.
[01:45.68]There is no need to resort to hair-dyeing；
[01:48.74]the snow-capped mountain is itself a beautiful scene of fairyland.
[01:53.34]Let your looks change from young to old synchronizing with the natural ageing process
[02:00.01]so as to keep in harmony with nature, for harmony itself is beauty,
[02:05.70]while the other way round will only end in unpleasantness.
[02:10.62]To be in the elder's company is like reading a thick book of deluxe edition
[02:16.97]that fascinates one so much as to be reluctant to part with.
[02:21.68]As long as one finds where one stands, one knows how to package oneself,
[02:27.48]just as a commodity establishes its brand by the right packaging.