B E A UTIFUL!

"Oh boy! That girl fine die!!"
"Which one?"
"That tall yellow girl wey wear that blue jeans wey glue for her body like plate number for car, wey her flower shirt be like say the company manager call am for measurement"
"E con mean say e fine?"
"Leave talk abeg, this one pass glaucoma! Your chic fine reach am? Or you no see as she get am for up and down sotey if Ada sef see this one, she ma go jealous. When you con traverse look her face nko? Nna paupau mehn... Y A U ! ! ! You sef wan see am?"

Oya, insert delicately imagined picture here

Beauty as been defined as "a characteristic of a person, animal, place, object, or idea that provides a perceptual experience of pleasure or satisfaction", intangible in all its attributes, but takes on the persona that is created for it. This said persona is created by the society and often reinforced by the media.

What is termed "beautiful" varies from localities to regions to continents to the world; for as Beyonce is called beautiful, so is Lupita these days, as Agbani, so is Queen Latifah, for as Aishwarya, so also is Asa and quite recently, KIM!

Over the years, the society has created profile after profile of what beautiful should look like and in the years that follow have recreated new profiles, always often thrashing its predecessors. And we, as helpless loyal members of the society join the team in creating, recreating and reinforcing such ideals. Ideals which always run far without reach of the same member-creators of the society.

This runs alike for both female and male were "discipline" or the lack of it is to blame for adhering to or not to this phantom orchestrations, not considering Mother Nature played her trick on us all when she spoke in codes of DNA and distinguished us one from another like 6 billion cards shuffled that no sequence be repeated.

As a race who is addicted to blaming, who then do we blame for our woes of conformism? Shouldn't we just admit how ugly we are (or pretty for the unlucky few) and get moving to acquiring what some have come to rightly termed the only true beauty, MONEY?

So, let me end this post by pointing out that we individually saw what society called beautiful and chose to accept it as our paradigm. We CHOSE TO LEARN what people called beautiful and hence heaped on ourselves the full measures of inadequacies the bearing brings.

The questions therefore to consider is "Can the definition of beauty be redefined by a conscious private unlearning and relearning process? Can these new definitions have public relevance?"

Or in short...

Can we all be B-E-A-UTIFUL???