Mother Earth Doesn’t Wear Makeup
While riding the train today, I saw a woman spend the entire 20 minute ride “painting” her face. She literally looked like a different person from the time I got on the train to the time I got off….actually a lot less appealing (…to me at least). I know that we all have our own ways to make-up stories about who we are (ie types of clothes, cars, friends, house, etc), but cosmetics (and plastic surgery) perplex me the most. I’m sure I’m not the first guy to say this, but I prefer women who don’t wear it.
According to Wikipedia, worldwide cosmetic sales were expected to reach $18B in 2007 in comparison the to the self-improvement market which only totaled $8.5B in 2003. On a global perspective, it is no coincidence that Mother Earth is in the state that she is in. Women are a reflection of Mother Earth. They are the life-giving force of the world, fertilized by the rays of the Father Sun. A woman’s true foundation is not made by Mac or L’Oreal; it is made by God. Nothing accents a woman’s eyes, lips, or dimples like the aura created by the spirit within her. Until men and women alike learn to appreciate Mother Earth for her natural beauty, she will continue to bathe herself in hurricanes, tsunamis, and earthquakes to open and cleanse her pores.
When I think of Mother Earth all I see is beauty. When Mother Earth has a crack in her skin, we call it a canyon. When she has a oozing pimple on her surface, we call it a volcano. When she has a tear running down her face, we call it a river. We travel to the Grand Canyon, Mississippi River, and other national parks because they are the most pure parts of Earth; They aren’t painted with cement cities. In the same way one shouldn’t have to travel miles upon miles to replace the unnatural cityscape with a beautiful landscape, one shouldn’t have to peel back layers upon layers to see the true beauty of any woman walking on the face of Mother Earth. Like Mother Earth, woman are perfect and whole the way they are and should be acknowledged as the first wonder of the world.
Art: “Mother Earth” by Jenness Cortex Perlmutter
