Beauty and the Beast - 2

“I was brought up to believe beauty is not worth thinking about, what's important is your soul, your mind—you don't want to be a fifty-dollar haircut on a fifty-cent head.”

~Garrison Keillor, We Are Still Married: Stories and Letters

Okay guys. Back on beauty again......

I wrote a article some weeks back on the issue of "beauty". I was taking a pseudo-altruistic view because I wanted to be honest in the depths of the truth of  "real beauty". The beauty that would make the world a better place.

This time we'll be looking at the nature of the beauty that we focus on - today, in the world.

Let's be honest. With these four people in the above pic, who do you think is "more beautiful" . Do you judge beauty by external appearance?

Well most of us do. Be honest, you automatically judged the older ladies as 

Beauty...and the beast.....

"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

As much as I would have loved to write up a kolanut article on this i.e.  'Beauty in a kolanut' I think I'll leave it just as a simple article and give the extrapolation which I have on this only.

I'm sure most people no longer believe that beauty these days is that of the biggest butt or chest or curviest body, or the prettiest face even. Most of that is thankfully dye to the influence of the social media, thought leaders, new age thinkers, internet and yes, even the mass media as well. 

Considering the damage that the latter two have done to promote such an image it's good that they've finally tried to redeem themselves - in a way. The gross majority of those latter two still promotes and propagates that image of beauty which they sell advertise in their monetizing bids to prey on the fantasies of the public. The men who love, as well as encourage, that image of gratifying beauty and the women who are forced to believe that "Beauty" is all about "Sex Appeal" .

The Rival

Have you ever had a competitor in something? If you're saying no, and you're a human being, then I'm not exactly sure if I have any good news for you, or maybe you just don't know. The truth is ever since we've existed, even before our birth we've competed.

You've competed with the other spermatozoa to get to that fertile egg.

You've competed with your siblings for food, toys and attention.

You've competed with life issues for survival each day.

You even compete with gravity - every day that you stand up again.