Words of Wisdom

Last night I was in the car with my roommates (a not so unusual occurance) and we were chatting about various books that we have read in the past (a rather extensive list). Two of the books mentioned involve men falling in love with women that society had dubbed plain and unattractive and they had no prospects for marriage. With each of these women, their male counterparts found them beautiful and beguiling and absolutely amazing (gives hope to the rest of us, doesn't it?), and they didn't understand why the world doesn't see it. Obviously, the three of us really liked these stories and the emphasis on inner beauty, but also how these women were also pyhsically beautiful to the men who loved them. Then my roommate Whitney made this comment: If every woman in the world was absolutely gorgeous and phsycially beautiful except one, would that woman be more beautiful because she was different?
It made me pause and think. I still don't know the answer a few hours later, but it was something to ponder on. We're all given the looks we are and we must muddle through with them, but more than that, we should be proud of the way we look. We only get one body so like what you get!
Reminds me of a quote from Don Juan Demarco. Ok, so he's a bit of a womanizer and a wealth of sensuality, but he got this one right.
"When I say that all my women are dazzling beauties, they object. The nose of this one is too large; the hips of another, they are too wide; perhaps the breasts of a third, they are too small. But I see these women for how they truly are... glorious, radiant, spectacular, and perfect... because I am not limited by my eyesight. Women react to me in the way they do, Don Octavio, because they sense that I search out the beauty that lies within until it overwhelms everything else."
So, be the dazzling beauty that you are, ladies. Because we are worth it, and it'd be a shame to be anything else.