I remember a beauty pageant I once watched when I was a young girl. The host asked the contestant which she would prefer: beauty, brains or money. The contestant, of course, answered she would pick brains, “because if you’re smart, you can easily be both smart and rich as well.”
Women who are both smart and beautiful will never cease to beguile. They arrest you first with their winning smile, perfect hair, long lashes and statuesque figure. Then they keep you captivated with witty conversation and insightful opinions. But consider the upkeep required for a woman to stay both beautiful and smart. The mani-pedis, the eyebrow-tweezing, the leg-waxing, the thirty minutes of daily exercise. And don’t get me started on how expensive and time-consuming it is to look for clothes to fit her body shape, and the accessories that will go well with the clothes. And of course she has to: brush up on current events and pop culture (who’s dating who, who’s getting kicked out of American Idol); know what a Pastitsio is and how to make it; know everybody from Sarah Palin to Niccolò Machiavelli to Dwayne Wayde to Perez Hilton; distinguish a princess diamond from a pear-shaped one; know what ingredients are needed to make a Screwdriver, and also know what the different types of screwdrivers are.
Honestly speaking, I’d rather choose to be effortlessly beautiful that effortlessly smart. And when I say effortlessly, I mean, no matter what you do, you are always beautiful. An hour of primping will just make you look and feel good for eight hours max. An hour of reading the newspaper or browsing Wikipedia will go a long long way.
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