Budy

In all honest, Budy's writings did not affect me all that much. I thought that the book was full of typical clichйs that I have heard my entire life. Budy simply reiterated these facts that I have heard since childhood. "Beauty is on the inside", "Beauty is as beauty does", and "beauty is only skin deep". I have heard these all my life. Every time that I felt bad my mother would come and recite one of these in an attempt to raise my spirits. It did in the beginning. But then the words became all the same. It became harder and harder to cheer me up using these childhood phrases. That is when I began to realize that "love for beauty" is more common than I had been led to believe and that beauty is seen better if it is on the outside. This is when my mother permitted me to wear make-up.

For me, all Budy did was remind me of the fact that beauty and love are not all that they are cracked up to be. Beauty is what draws a person of the opposite sex towards you. They do not think first off "Wow. She seems like a person with a good soul". No, that is not it. They think "Man, she has a nice ass". This it true for roughly 98 percent of men today. Physical characteristic is what attracts one person to another, not their "inner beauty". The other problem I had with Budy is her concept of love.

Love is described as "a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person

[ http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/love]. This love that Budy speaks of is uncommon in the society that we live in. In a world where roughly a third of marriages end in divorce, how can we speak of this kind of love? If you are lucky enough to find someone that you love(mind, body, and soul) how can you know that they will return your love. Is it possible that the one that is "meant for you" has already found someone for them? In all truthfulness, yes.

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