Scented Sunsets

I was born with a fabulous nose.  I think Picasso had a blast designing it and it's my favorite family heirloom.  My name and my nose will forever remain the same.  Not everyone feels this confident about themselves or their face or body.  However, by the time you turn 57, your head is going North while your Ass is going South.  Enjoy what you have and be grateful for it. 

I have a wonderful book entitled:  Body Feng Shui, The Ancient Chinese Science of Body Reading.  The author is Chao-Hsiu Chen.  I'll quote you a bit from this fascinating book:

"But are there international  laws of beauty?  Yes, but they are not natural ones; rather they are ideals that have been created by those who are always more fascinated by what others have than by what they have (and who, of course, like to profit from this fascination, especially since there are enough victims in the world for this sort of enterprise).

Nonetheless there is an insoluable contradiction in all this; while these man-made laws exist, there also exist the potential buyers, who can only be partially seduced.  There always remain enough people who do not care about trends and fads and live their own, unique beauty.

This unique beauty is not a perfect one in the sense of the international fashion community, but a natural one in which there are positive and negative things, as is described in the teachings of Body Feng Shui.  The idea is to care for the positive things and to turn negative things into something unique (for example, baldness; one should not be ashamed of it and wear a hairpiece, but rather stylize it into a trademark, which by the way - because of a hormonal excess--also indicates a good libido).

The World is beautiful because of its infinite possibilities and not because of some ominous perfection.

Confucius said, "When you enter a room that always smells evenly of orchids, you will one day no longer be able to realize this pleasant smell.  The same goes for muck heaps."

When one gets used to beauty and does not strive to find out whether good things are hidden in it, one will not enjoy it for long.  But when one tries to discover what is hidden behind ugliness, one may fiind an invisible beauty, which surpasses the visible.  This is also described by two poems from the Tang Period.  The first says:

So beautiful is the sunset,

How sad that night follows.

And the second:

The more clouds there are in the sky,

the more spectacular will be the sunset.

Therefore, trust what you were given by nature.  Pay attention to the clouds in the sky, and you will experience a wonderful sunset.