As a guy…a straight guy…I look at the women of this world. And the following words are from the mind of a guy. This is such a simple post with an interesting ending.

Women. Ladies. Girls.

You are beautiful.

You need to know that. Especially in this country, you’re only beautiful if you fit a size 8 dress…and you’re only valued if you show more of your body. You have to wear this type of clothes. Perhaps even smell a certain way (I’m kind of a freak because I do sniff people from time to time. I need help). But I feel like that’s not fair.

For one reason, there is so much more to a woman than just her figure. I will be honest, thinner women are more attractive to me than…larger. But, make no mistake, a woman’s figure only plays a part in what makes a woman beautiful. Some say how personality isn’t important. It is to me. Even in my list for what I look for in my future wife, personality traits appeared while figure made no appearance.

Besides, when we’re become old, all of our bodies will start looking…rough…

I love a woman because she’s caring. She’s strong. She’s funny. She’s smart. A woman with any of these characteristics and more positive attributes are what make a woman beautiful as well as her body.

Some women are blessed with beauty in different areas. Her voice. Her encouraging words. Her body.

Ladies, I want you to know that you are beautiful. You are. You are in your own way. Don’t let the media…the world tell you what real beauty is. God made you beautiful the way He wanted to. You may not believe this, and that’s fine with me. It’s hard for guys to approach certain women because an honest compliment can turn into something nasty because you apparently can’t be as beautiful as that person said you are.

But you are. You really are. So smile, dang it! Take a compliment. Not everybody is trying to get in your pants.

I’m doing a lot of talking here but I’m about to do something that could be crazy. I’m in the process of making these business cards. They read: “Smile! You’re beautiful!” That’s it. And I intend on giving them to random strangers of all ages. Well, maybe not kids as that could get me in some trouble. So I guess 18+ women are all eligible. There’s so much beauty. Some obvious and some not so obvious. Some need to know it while others already know how beautiful they are.

So if you are in my neck of woods, don’t be surprised if I hand you the card and then walk away. Just smile. Because you’re beautiful.

-DALANEL