Beautiful women, we meet every day in malls, marketplace, churches, and aboard jeepneys I even saw one riding on top of a jeepney bound for some remote town on the island of Catanduanes. I first noticed her in the boat going to the island from Tabaco City and indeed she was daintily and naturally beautiful. Of course, until she scrambled to get a place on top of a jeepney.
Even fishes, meat, and vegetables are termed “magayon” or beautiful. On visits to the wet market, a vendor would say, “Sir, and gaganda ng mga isda o. Bili na po kayo (Sir, the fishes are beautiful. Please buy them”). When I’m in good humor I would usually reply : ”Okay, pero pwede ba natin siyang isali sa search for Miss. Bikolandia kasi sabi mo maganda?”
The point is, being adjudged as Miss so and so, or Binibining this and that, does not exclude others from being called beautiful or of lesser beauty. Neither it is a license to be presumptuous or arrogant, like the lady in yellow I saw on TV in the pre-pageant interview.
Beauty may get to join pageants because of sponsors, handlers, finances, or simply by ambition, while others with wit and looks wouldn’t care less. Perhaps they already have that self-confidence that there is nothing more to prove.
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