Tuesday, February 13, 2007

BEAUTY:THE BEST REVENGE

I read this from a local daily:

Hi guys:

Please work your magic on me. I need a major overhaul, new look from head to toe, so that my ex will be sorry he left me for someone really hideous-looking.
Thanks, happy new year!

Jen

This Jen wants to have a new look so that her ex-boyfriend would regret his leaving her. Well, is beauty really the best revenge? Many would think yes. Some may say no. What do you think? Now imagine this – your boyfriend left you. Then one day you see him with his new girlfriend. When you pass by them, very sexy from the dress you are wearing to your hairstyle and make-up, you see him stare at you with a gaping mouth. How would that feel, huh? Jen would surely feel, “Oh, sweet revenge!” The ex-boyfriend though, may feel some regret.
Is beauty now the major necessity for a relationship to last or even to begin? Are boys really “visual” in nature that they would go into a relationship only with a pretty girl? He sees a very pretty girl, he courts her, she says yes. But then, after a month or two, boy splits up with girl and girl weeps. Boy finds another pretty girl. Girl is done with weeping and makes herself more beautiful. Just to show her ex, girl attracts a more handsome boy. Familiar story? Yeah, you witness a lot of stories like this not just in the world of entertainment, but also in the neighborhood.
Maybe, beauty is a boy’s measure for a relationship to begin but it is not an insurance that a relationship will last. If making yourself beautiful could still lead to heartaches, why bother? So, is beauty really the best revenge? Why don’t you just go to the boy who dumped you, shoot him with a shotgun and be done with it? Here are other ways to get back at him: you can strangle him, poison him, or kick him in the nuts! I would definitely go for the latter. But beautify yourself? I don’t know if I will get the desired result. What if my ex, despite all the trouble I went through making myself look beautiful, would look at me and tell his new girlfriend, “I dumped her.” I may end up embarrassed or worse, still weeping.
I understand Jen and the result she desires after a beauty overhaul. She wants her ex to suffer slowly, always seeing her more gorgeous than before until he succumbs. Then goes to her on bended knees asking for forgiveness and for a second chance. Since Jen wants revenge, she must really be very angry by what her ex had done to her. If she’s so angry with her ex as to want revenge, I don’t think she would want reconciliation. So why go through all the trouble – just to show off? If you are really angry, okay fine, you beautify yourself, but I think you would get immediate revenge if you beat your ex to death, or just burn him (just joking)!
Revenge is not a very pretty word. You’re not even sure if it will not backfire on you. Using beauty as the tool for revenge could be the most harmless of all the choices I presented earlier. However, results are not immediate.
Jen is a single mother of a five-year old boy. She’s a businesswoman who trades in birds’ nests. Yes, those swallow’s nests that are considered a delicacy in Chinese cuisine. She does her business in busy Divisoria, Macau and Hongkong. She flew in to Manila to be glammed. She can definitely afford to be beautiful. So if I were Jen, I’d make myself beautiful because I want to and not because I want some good-for-nothing guy suffer. No way! Life is beautiful. I’m beautiful and I don’t want any one (guy or girl) spoil it! I hope Jen can read this BLOG to cool her off.

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