Beauty is a blessing in disguise

THE EDITOR: This letter is for all the women in the country and I choose your newspaper because it is the most read daily newspaper in TT. Beauty is a gift that can only come from God.

Some women use it and some women abuse it, and most women want to have it. Let’s face it. We all spend thousands of dollars to try to look beautiful. We all endure a lot of pain, physical pain, in the process. Like getting your eyebrows waxed, for example, can be very painful. Having your hair coloured is so tedious, and all the dieting and exercising to have the perfect body can really take a toll on you mentally and we, the normal women, all go through this to look beautiful. We are all obsessed with wanting to look like the current celebrities. But has any one ever stopped to wonder about these beautiful celebrities that we want to look like?

If you look behind their beauty and you look deep into their personal lives, they all lead very lonely lives. I can name them for you. Look at women like Elizabeth Taylor, married five times; Marilyn Munroe died alone and lonely; Princess Diana, died young and heartbroken; Jennifer Lopez married twice; Ashwaria Rai lonely at the age of 35 and  Oprah Winfrey still unmarried and she takes the cake as she is the most admired woman in the world. These women are all successful in their careers. They are all role models to the youths. They are perceived to be happy and they are always surrounded by friends and fans, but really they all lead miserable lives. Men are afraid to marry them. There is nothing wrong with these women. It’s the men who are insecure because  it takes a very secure man to be with a woman who is beautiful, and because this is lacking in society, these women always end up leading very lonely lives. So if God did not bless you with beauty like theirs, that’s okay because at least you will lead a normal life and not end up lonely like most of the beautiful women in the world. It’s all so sad that these women who are so loved by all can’t even find one person to love them for who they really are.

M BOURGEOIS
Tunapuna