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Posted by billybofh
on Wed 26 Jun 02, 8:04 PM to billybofh's blog.
I've always had problems....
...But then any of you who've read my other weblogs will
know that... 
The specific problem I'm talking about in todays little peice is the perception of beauty.
The physical beauty which is named and labelled as beauty in magazines and sunday supplements is, to me, akin to eating ready-prepared meals. There is a kind of plastic, over-produced blandness about it. A homogeneity of taste and colour. It's almost like the true beauty has been processed out and then "Beauty(tm)" has been injected back in to make them palatable again.
To take your time over food, to savour its taste and texture - the colours and flow of tastes is what engages me at an emotional level. To savour a face, a body. To trace the contours of smiles gone by, the creases from the held-back tears of old arguments. To feel the muscles grown into place beneath the smooth skin - to feel the weight and envelop myself in the beauty someone truly beautiful.
It makes me sad to walk past the ready-meals in supermarkets. The walls of chill average. I feel the same sadness when I walk past the images in newsagents... face after face of chilled, ready-to-serve normality. It kinda makes me cry sometimes....
Edited Wed 26 Jun 02, 8:10 PM by billybofh
