I’ve been getting into my new age music a little recently. By new age, I’m not talking about a little bit of twinkly music, I ‘m talking about full on hug-a-tree stuff. I’ve event booked tickets to this meditation concert here. The venue is big, and I’ve heard of the Swamiji who plays and he does sound amazing. The weird thing is, this has come on all of a sudden. I don’t feel like it’s a phase, but I can’t be sure because I’m in it right now, so I’ll only know its a phase when and if it passes. I don’t think that this one is going to pass however, I think it is here to stay. I’ve started listening to Cd’s of people chanting and I’ve this urge to learn to play the flute or sitar. So while all this is happening, my girlfriend has decided that she wants to go and have cosmetic surgery! Seriously though, the timing is just so wrong.

I don’t think I’ve ever been pro changing your body, but having said that as a man I know few people who would knock their girlfriend for wanting to have breast enlargements. Now a few months ago, I probably would have given her a lift to the clinic. My sense of beauty though has changed. I no longer think that being blond and busty is the be all and end all. I think that our perception of how beautiful someone is changes over time. The more we get to know and like who they actually are, we start to see the beauty or ugly physical parts of them as a manifestation of how we feel about them. I know that this all sounds a bit hippy, but I really think that it is true. I really like my girlfriend, and I like the way she looks. I can’t see how her having herself cut up could possibly improve the way she looks to me. If she isn’t satisfied with how she looks now, where does it stop? She starts with enlarging part of herself, the next thing she knows she’s having regular liposuction to reduce another part of her body. Where does it end?

 I think we need to be careful about how we choose to see beauty, if we start altering things we will never stop. I think that perhaps the true answer is to alter how we perceive each other. If we learn to look to the heart, we will be more than satisfied with our selves and each other, we will be happy.

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