Circling Beauty

The idea of beauty is ever changing. Just yesterday I saw a tree outside my window that I thought was the most disgusting tree I had ever seen. Today, it seems like any ordinary tree. Tomorrow, it might seem like a beautiful tree. If a person were ever to buy a tree in a shop, he or she would pick the one that looked best, or that appealed to them most. If everyone kept buying the "good looking" trees, and the other trees died out, would there eventually be only good looking trees? I think this is an interesting thought in that it would be interesting to see what would happen if all the trees were "beautiful." How could we perceive beauty without variation? I do not know whether we would be able to tell if a tree is beautiful or not if all the trees were beautiful. It is like when parents tell us that "everyone is special in some way" and many of us think to ourselves, "well that is just another way of saying that no body is!" Reading through The Beauty Myth, I found another phrase that made me think about this idea even more. This idea, that "Women must want to embody [beauty] and men must want to possess women who embody it" made me think (12). Lets take this scenario for example. If men were only attracted to beautiful women, and if the same was true for women towards men, then all their children would be "beautiful" and eventually everyone would be so since both men and women are consistently choosing partners who are "beautiful." In this scenario, everyone becomes like the trees I described earlier. If everyone is beautiful, how would we be able to say that somebody is beautiful? Also, I mentioned that the idea of beauty is always changing. Perhaps, in that world where everyone is beautiful, our senses will start to work in the opposite way, that is, to see "imperfection" rather than to ignore it. Maybe our perception of beauty will change, and what we see as beautiful today, will be ugly tomorrow. I find it somewhat difficult to see that happening anywhere but in theory, but then again, I am still fairly new to this world just as many others are. I have no doubt that my perception of beauty, whether to do with people, or nature in general, has changed since I was younger, and will continue to change as I grow and change. Beauty, in this way, is circling like life, like the earth around the sun, and the sun around bigger stars, and bigger stars around the super-massive black hole and the centre of our galaxy.