My two
sisters also took over the ‘gene’, and oh well, let's be honest, which of the
ladies and more and more also men are also participating in this ‘beauty
contest’. Living here in Thailand I think Thai men are ranking high on the
world wanting to be beautiful list.
Nowadays
you can hardly take a magazine in your hands anymore or it is not at least for 50%
filled with how you can become even more beautiful. You only have to invest. There
is no end to it.
My
Chinese teacher of Buddhist philosophy once said in a lesson that it is indeed endless.
There is always more beautiful, there is always better, there is always more
and even in relation to the beauty of men and women.. there is always more and
‘better’ to be found.
Isn't it
great what not all is invented? More beautiful! Here again such a picture that
I came across last Sunday afternoon August 25th in Chiang Mai city.
Screaming on a billboard the size of a house.
Of
course, you should not be stopped for the company (the name I photo-shopped out
of the picture) that places these kinds of billboards or puts all those
advertisements and marketing campaigns in magazines. And if you buy their
products be aware you even pay for these campaigns as well. After all, that
magazine would otherwise be much more expensive without that sponsor.
We can't
even describe what beautiful is. Ever thought about that? And everyone has his
or her own taste in it. For example, I find my partner beautiful and
attractive. I like her tinted skin. Someone else might not like it at all.
Nothing wrong with that. The world is full of other skin colors.
The nice
thing is that the beauty industry here in Asia tells people that they should
mainly be white. Having a white skin shows a kind of higher ranking. I don’t
know how easy to express. Shelves full of "whitener" and you need to
stay as much as possible out of the sun. Thick sweaters with long sleeves in
the heat on the scooter and cover your head like a "gangster". Police
in Europe or America immediately should stop you to take this balaclava off.
And about
skin color? In Europe you are invited or sometimes even pushed to use the sun
and gat that tinted tan. That is nice (I think so too). The same companies also
sell products for this. It’s just about telling stories, help people to believe
them and… sell.
What I personally
like is to accentuate a tiny little bit the natural beauty you have and that
makes you the unique person you are. Your distinctiveness. That is something totally
different than for instance the race against aging, etc., things that cannot be
stopped. Not creating unnatural walking paintings, I so many times see, where
the "stucco work" breaks and almost jumps off the skin getting a
natural smile.
Mirrors
have been around for a long time. Many nowadays have been taken over by using
the I-phone as a mirror. Walking in the city, in a shopping mall, waiting at
the Yamaha maintenance shop, or wherever, I see people more and more using this
function. Hanging in the ‘mirror’. Looking to everything that, according to the
beauty industry, should be better, more beautiful. The campaigns and companies
succeeded because people believe in it. Every hair, bump, wrinkle, eyelid, lip,
and so on. The ladies and gentlemen ‘working’ in the make-up and beauty
departments in the shopping malls for me are heroes in it. Not sure if they
really see themselves in those mirrors or cell phones anymore.
Not to
tear my mother down, but in my eyes, she often exaggerated in it. And for her
profession as an actress, that was of course part of the job. But in real life
she did not need it. Yet I actually saw my mother at her best when I came out
of the cafe or disco at night and she was still waiting for me with a beer. With
those curlers in her hair she wanted to know all her children were safe home
again. Great!
Pure
nature as she was. And yes, just like nature, that changes in time getting
older. Not at all that it wasn't "beautiful" anymore.
What is
beautiful? What the industry tells you because they want to sell?
You have
been beautiful since birth! Never for everyone of course because there is
always "better" as that Chinese abbot once told me in that lesson.
And tastes differ. And if you realize that… then you don't have to be stopped
at all to be beautiful as the billboard screams because you are satisfied with
the beauty that you (every person) already have. Your specific and personal
beauty in which you can be and express your true self.
And, I am
still a bit Dutch, it also saves a lot of money.
Enjoy
your beauty freely and free of charge.
Gangey Gruma (Frans Captijn)
email: captijninsight@gmail.com
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