All About Beauty

Beauty (also called prettiness, loveliness or comeliness) is a characteristic of a person, animal, place, object, or idea that provides a perceptual experience of pleasure or satisfaction. Beauty is studied as part of aesthetics, sociology, social psychology, and culture. An "ideal beauty" is an entity which is admired, or possesses features widely attributed to beauty in a particular culture, for perfection- this is Wikipedia's definition of beauty.  

The characterization of a person as “beautiful”, whether on an individual basis or by community consensus, is often based on some combination of inner beauty, which includes psychological factors such as personality, intelligence, grace, politeness, charisma, integrity, congruence and elegance, and outer beauty (i.e. physical attractiveness) which includes physical attributes which are valued on a subjective basis.

Standards of beauty have changed over time, based on changing cultural values. Historically, paintings show a wide range of different standards for beauty. However, humans who are relatively young, with smooth skin, well-proportioned bodies, and regular features, have traditionally been considered the most beautiful throughout history.

Psychologists argue that gorgeous people get preferential treatment is a not-too-pretty fact of life, long attributed to the halo effect(The halo effect or halo error is a cognitive bias in which our judgments of a person’s character can be influenced by our overall impression of him or her. It can be found in a range of situations). Now there's evidence that beauty and intelligence (and other positive characteristics) go hand in hand. Evolutionary psychologists have opened a tantalizing line of inquiry onto age-old questions about beauty, and not a moment too soon. Clinical psychologists observe that men and women alike appear more concerned than ever with attractiveness and perceived physical imperfections.  

Well, beauty is relative: what might be beauty to one person, may not be to another hence the saying - beauty lays in the eyes of the beholder. Some may disagree and say that 'the beautiful are not yet born', but does this mean that mankind has never seen beauty? or that mankind will never see beauty?


For others, beauty is in nature.the trees, rivers, flowers, birds, butterflies.... name it.... 

Nature can bring alot of beauty into our lives, it has a way of changing our moods, how we feel, and even what we do, and how we do it. when it is sunny and bright, we feel cheerful; when its raining and cold, we get all gloomy; at night when the moon is up in the sky, we say what a romantic night it is. 

What is beauty to you? Well, some people I asked think that womanhood is beauty. One friend of mine categorically stated that God created women so that men would know what beauty is. I second him. A girlfriend of mine- who madly loves babies- said that beauty is when a little baby grabs you pointing finger in its tiny little hand.....(get the picture?) We can talk all day about beauty, and probably won't come to an agreement- beauty is all around you....

this is what i truly mean

There are all kinds of men in my life: my dad, my boyfriend, my brother, uncles, cousins, friends,and ‘others’. Many of the times I feel like they don’t really understand me, especially when we argue. so I’ll try and set things straight here… women and men are very different! And I don’t mean the obvious physical difference, I mean we are a whole lot different, including the way in which we communicate. Women process things differently from men,and as much as we would like to think in your way, we would like you(men) to understand us too,especially when we are pissed at you. Below are some of the words we use in our conversations and there is an explanation to what each word means. Men, read them carefully and understand them, and if any woman in your life has been using these words a lot more lately, beware! Because  her wrath will soon be unleashed(if it has not happened yet.)  

  

If you made your wife, daughter or girlfriend angry; and she’s giving you a hard time (she doesn’t want to forgive you despite of your efforts asking for forgiveness) just bear with her, but don’t give up and snap and start saying things like ‘well, if you don’t want to forgive me then it’s your loss’ or whatever it is that you normally say and make her alot more angrier than she was. Women like being bribed to forgive. The cheapest bribe is a kiss. And if u promise me a box of chocolates, or a pair of shoes that I’ve always adored, then be sure to keep your promise, coz it was a bribe in the first place, and I can easily go back to being annoyed.  

One more thing; we really don’t care (we care, but not that much-we care that it makes you happy like a little boy but not at our expense) how much that football game means to you but if you stand me yup coz you were watching a Chelsea game! That’s it!

Even though that lady doesn’t show it she loves being taken out on dates. Be proud of her and publicly show her off- but not too much because she’ll think that you see her as a trophy.

The last thing is what many men tend to forget, compliment her, as much as you can. If she changed her hair, take note. If her outfit is sexy, please let her know… and if her shoes turn you on, tell her. Always tell her how much you love her.

my land, my people

 The other day I'm watching this program on t.v about discoveries in Africa and Southern America. Well, something came up that made me really angry, so to say; and i updated my status on Facebook complaining. this is what i had to say(at the moment of course because i got more):

let me set things straight here: those ancient white explorers and missionaries did not discover nothing in Kenya or Africa for that matter....rivers, lakes, mountains...nothing. kwani wale Africans mlipata hapa hawakua wanaziona? ati u discovered them?!! nktest!!! 

Before the European explorers came to these lands in what is popularly known as The Age of Discovery, there were inhabitants in both Africa and S.America. Those European explorers saw our beautiful lands: the mountains, plains, rivers and lakes and our people (who respected nature and worshiped it) and went back to Europe saying that the had made discoveries: they even renamed some of the sites; as if our forefathers never had names for their mountains! To make things wrong they thought our ancestors uncivilized! Give us a break here: we had laws governing us, governments, we had our own medicine men, our own religions. They saw us as pagans not remembering that in ancient Europe paganism was vibrant, and those with belief worshiped gods just like our ancestors did. 

So the Europeans came back to our land with an aim of 'developing' our land and 'educating' our people: by the way, we had our own forms of education. What did they end up doing? They tricked our leaders into signing treaties that led to our colonisation and in most instances they used force. 

What I'm trying to put across here is that the settlement of Europeans in Africa between the 17th 1nd 19th centuries did Africa alot of harm and no good. Colonisation ruined this once beautiful place...and it will take Africa long to free herself from neo-colonialism since the West is still trying to control us with all their crap- first fix yourself before u try to fix us. and i still stick to my word(status update): you did not discover nothing. 

this is the meaning of discover:to see, get knowledge of, learn of, find, or find out; gain sight or knowledge of (something previously unseen or unknown) Did these explorers mean to say that our land was unknown or unseen to us?