In the eye of the beholder

         (Originally posted on Apr 15, 2007 - 14:39)

         Humans are inherently unsatisfied with what they have.
But some cases are harder for me to understand than others.
Like why do some beautiful women believe they are not beautiful and try to change themselves? 

         Women always say "If you want to love me, you have to love me as I am!" And yet they don't love themselves and they are always trying to change something.
         There is this girl. She's so beautiful. And yet she believes that she must change her hair, that she's too fat and she wishes she had longer legs.
Why?
         Can't you see how perfect you are?
         You don't need to change your hair. It is not only beautiful, it is fantastic! I wonder how it would feel to bury my face on those golden curls. But I would be more than happy just by having the privilege to touch them. 

          You are not fat. It's not the weight or the height that counts. It is how you fill the space that you occupy, it is your presence, It is the way you move: That is poetry in motion. It is how you make everybody around you feel good just by being in the same place as you.Your legs are so perfect and you don't need a tan. Your white skin is so delicate, so soft. And I know I made an embarrassing blunder when I mistook the color of your eyes. But I'm sincere when I say that yours are the sweetest eyes that I've ever seen. 

         I know I agreed with you when you said we are both entitled to have different opinions. But my opinion is that you are perfectly beautiful because your beauty is natural. And it's not worth changing anything because if you change anything you would still be beautiful, but then it would be a more artificial, man-made, synthetic beauty.

         If beauty is in the eye of the beholder then I wish you could see yourself through my eyes and realize how beautiful you are, as you are.