Develop Poise - Why Should We?
It adds to a beauty of a person. Its a beauty of moment, beauty of sitting still. Most of all, I think if it adds to my self confidence, its more than enough for me! Think about it. Wouldn't you like to look graceful from the every movement you make? I would like to say it depends on the person. It depends on how much you want to change your poise, if you even think you need work on it. In some areas I am a perfectionist, and for the longest time I had many people commenting on the way I walk. It was a strange and unique walk. Though people laughed at me and assured me not to be silly when I become very self conscious about it, I resolved very much to "work on my walk". Just as Grace Kelly begged for a voice recorder at the age of 18 from her father, she worked on terribly hard to remove her country accent, I tried to remove that weird swagger. For me, it was my personal choice.
All princesses had a "Deportment" trainer in all aspects of social graces. This trainer has existed a long way back. We can see its existence from the book of Esther in the bible. The Story Goes: The king organized a big feast and had many important guests. He ordered his wife Vashti to display her beauty before the guests. She refused to come. He got mad and removed her as queen. He then orders all "beautiful young girls to be presented to him, so he can choose a new queen. From Esther Chapter 2 8 When the king's order and edict had been proclaimed, many girls were brought to the citadel of Susa and put under the care of Hegai. Esther also was taken to the king's palace and entrusted to Hegai, who had charge of the harem. 9 The girl pleased him and won his favor. Immediately he provided her with her beauty treatments and special food. He assigned to her seven maids selected from the king's palace and moved her and her maids into the best place in the harem. 10 Esther had not revealed her nationality and family background, because Mordecai had forbidden her to do so. 11 Every day he walked back and forth near the courtyard of the harem to find out how Esther was and what was happening to her. 12 Before a girl's turn came to go in to King Xerxes, she had to complete twelve months of beauty treatments prescribed for the women, six months with oil of myrrh and six with perfumes and cosmetics. 13 And this is how she would go to the king: Anything she wanted was given her to take with her from the harem to the king's palace. 14 In the evening she would go there and in the morning return to another part of the harem to the care of Shaashgaz, the king's eunuch who was in charge of the concubines. She would not return to the king unless he was pleased with her and summoned her by name. 15 When the turn came for Esther (the girl Mordecai had adopted, the daughter of his uncle Abihail) to go to the king, she asked for nothing other than what Hegai, the king's eunuch who was in charge of the harem, suggested. Imagine being singled out and used to royal treatment, yet she was not a diva and remained humble. And Esther won the favor of everyone who saw her. 16 She was taken to King Xerxes in the royal residence in the tenth month, the month of Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign. 17 Now the king was attracted to Esther more than to any of the other women, and she won his favor and approval more than any of the other virgins. So he set a royal crown on her head and made her queen instead of Vashti. 18 And the king gave a great banquet, Esther's banquet, for all his nobles and officials. He proclaimed a holiday throughout the provinces and distributed gifts with royal liberality.
In the movie, it is shown how the little geishas-in-training learn how to sit and get up from seating position. "Not like a horse" Michelle Yeoh would say.
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