I have always wondered what beauty is. Why are we attracted to something beautiful and less to something plain. What are the attribute of beauty and its inner essence? Why is one particular woman in Home Depot or Nordstroms attactive and another not so much.
Genetic markers promoting evolutionary sustainability may give insight to men's (perhaps odd) obsessions with breasts and behinds -- and other markers that make women breath deeply when one man passes and cringe at another. Perfectly symmetrical faces and proportions has been shown to tie to perceptions of beauty. Cultural and media conditioning is another element. But these things hardly capture the totality of all the factors of attraction -- they barely scratch the surface of defining beauty. Is beuaty simply and ultimately arbitrary? or does it have an eternal form and attributes? And beauty clearly does not stop with humans. Design and art, manifest in many processes and things, can be beautiful. And nature can be so breathtakingly beautiful. Mirror mirror on the wall, who is the fariest of them all? Is a beautiful woman more beautiful than a sunset on a gorgeous beach -- with just the right defraction of light and spread of clouds -- and lapping waves, and glassy ocean. Or mountains and rivers in so many ways and forms. I just spend a more wonderful afternoon absorbed in nature and exercise. Lots of heavy breathing, and I was totally embraced by both expansively subtle and intense clusters of beauty. Would an afternoon of sex with the home depot lady have been more fulfilling? While I am up for research on this, lots of A/B trials, taking nature as a lover has some clear appeal. She is ever fresh, creative, sparkling and surprising. No fear of her running off with another man. Its not hard to get a date. And if you need some time alone, without her, she doesn't cringe and she welcomes you back when ever you want with open enthusiastic arms. And what is the commonality between a a beautiful woman and nature? Beyond outward expression, is there a commonality, or at least overlap, at a deep level? It seems a times that the glow within her is the same glow within Her.
