The Act of Being Beautiful

Today, being beautiful is more important than your IQ, your mental health, your physical health, or your qualifications. I'm sure a thousand people can argue against this, but let's face the music: Beauty is always in style.

The more important question is: what is beautiful? It seems that something that is this important to all of us would be easier to define. But, to this day, we still don't quite understand the mystique of beauty. Science says it's symmetry. Poets say it's grace. Feminists say it's confidence. As a wonder woman, I say it's a little bit of mystery.

You can't really equate to anyone why one person is more handsome than the person standing next to them. They just are. And it isn't just the "beautiful" people who are beautiful. Sometimes they're uglier than a bag of chum. But it's how they are, how they act, that makes them beautiful. And honestly, I don't know what is. But I know it when I see it. And I bet you do too.

Beauty is something. It's just not something that you can put in a box or the cover of a magazine and tell millions of women to "be" it. You have to discover the act of being beautiful. And don't ask this wonder woman how to discover it. That's like asking where the holy grail is, or who really shot JFK. The secret's out there, but it's better left a secret.

Being beautiful,WW