I love women's beauty. Their hair (or no hair, depending on yourtaste), their face, their neck, their arms, their hands, theirbreasts, their figure, their bottom, their legs, their feet;everything on them is beautiful. The possibilities are limitless.And then there is also make-up which can change everything around(most guys out there know what I mean).
But it is not so much the outer beauty that I love the mostabout a woman. It's a woman's nature that is praiseworthy. I've hada satisfactory degree of experience so far and it is still amystery to me how a woman can get in my head without me knowing. Iguess the phrase "get in my head" is the best way I could find toexpress a woman's ability to sometimes have her way influence me.Every guy has and will experience it at some point, or betterstill, at many points in his life. It is not always a bad thing.However, it is always admirable and still an enigma to me.
Maybe it is their smile, maybe it is their innate cunningness,maybe it is their way of speaking, maybe it is their body language,or maybe it's your love for them that lets you consciously allowthem to have their way. It is this point that I want to discuss.This article is not about what love is. Ha! That's hard. Instead Iwill try to show you why there is a danger for real beauty to belost.
Why do guys like girls? And I do not mean each individual case.I mean, generally, why do guys like girls? Well, the answer is verysimple. Without women, life would cease to exist. Of course, thisis the same reason why girls like guys.
However, the difference is that, nowadays, it is possible for awoman to have a child without the "presence" of a guy, whereas theopposite is by nature impossible. So in that sense, for guys, womenare not just beautiful because they advance life, but they are alsonecessary for the same reason. What could be more honorable, moreamazing, more beautiful than being responsible for the continuationof life on this planet? Well, simply put; nothing.
This, for me, is the ultimate kind of beauty. But let us not goover our heads here. I am not suggesting that every girl shouldthink "because I am the one entity on Earth that can continue life,every guy must like me." No. There is always taste that gets in theway, which as you know varies from person to person and is one ofthe inexplicable things in life. So, although a woman may beresponsible for the continuation of life, it doesn't mean that shewill be liked by every guy. What her nature does guarantee, though,is that there will definitely be someone who would choose to bewith her. Have you ever heard the saying "there is someone foreveryone"? That's where it probably comes from.
So now that we have established why every woman is beautiful,let me explain the title of this article. I am fortunate (andgrateful) enough to have grown up in an environment that has madelife relatively easy for me. This type of society allows for one ofthe problems in life to be the improvement (mostly artificially) offemale outer beauty. I use the world "problem," because forexample, if we lived in a place of military conflict, outer beautywould not be a problem for women; life itself would be theirprimary concern.
So in this kind of society I look around and one of the thingsthat strikes me the most is that I see many "perfect" female bodieseverywhere. Gorgeous faces (due to make-up), very thin bodies (dueto excessive and most of the times unhealthy diets), big breasts (Idon't need to go over neither this), nice bottom (nor this), andall these other artificial interferences with the female body thatattempt to achieve what society deems beautiful. One of my favoritecomedians said to women once that "the magazines start picking onyour self-esteem and every page you turn, you start feeling fatterand uglier, and you feel like your clothes are not good enough, andthe magazines have you forgetting how beautiful you are!"
That is surprisingly true. Society has made most of the womenout there obsessed with their outer beauty. That cannot be good,and I will give you another reason why. Previously, I said that itstrikes me that I see so many "perfect" bodies around. Normally youmight think "hey, what's wrong with that? The more the merrier."However, let me give you an example of what I am trying to say.
When I was 10, my father would return from business trips toGermany and would bring my sister and me Lindor truffles. Now, Iremember myself eating each one of them at an extremely slow paceso as to enjoy them as much as I could, because they were not soldin my country, Greece. I would even devise ways, such as eatingthem frozen, so that they did not melt in my mouth too fast.
Three years later, the local convenience shop started importingthem. I remember that the first day I found out was one of thehappiest moments of my life. A month later, after a bi-daily visitto that convenience store, I despised Lindor truffles. I thinkthere is a saying, "Hunger is the best pickle." Similarly, I feelthat by seeing so many "perfectly beautiful" female bodies around,the concept of real beauty starts to wither away. That may lead tous sometimes passing over what is really beautiful and settling forthe artificial.
But hey, don't get me wrong. I am definitely not saying that yougirls should stop trying to be (or becoming) seemingly beautiful.That would be devastating! All I am saying is not to obsess withbeing beautiful on the outside because, by the mere fact that youare a woman, you are already beautiful.
Nick Soutzoglou is a junior majoring in InternationalRelations and philosophy.
