If I had to pick a case in which evil takes the form of false beauty, I wouldn’t point to women.
It was Leo Tolstoy who wrote that evil takes the form of false beauty in women. For more information, please follow my other post, named “Can evil be beautiful?” Yes, women are beautiful, but they don’t necessarily have to be evil. Contrary, I believe that there are no only good or bad people. Definitely, most of us possess both good and bad habits, thoughts, etc. We are not black and white in the same way as my photographs are not black and white. All humans and all my images possess different palettes and shades of grey. We are complex, complicated, dual, ambivalent creatures who cannot be defined in simple words.
Ok, but I wanted to write something else in this post. For me, the perfect example of how evil is hiding behind a beautiful shell are… sweets.
Yes, I do not doubt that sweets, broadly defined as sugar, are among the most fundamental causes of most modern peoples’ illnesses. Obesity, heart attacks, blood pressure problems, cancer, chronic fatigue, and many more are enormous problems for people living in developed countries. I am not an exception. For most of my life, I was struggling with my desire to eat sweets. I wrote this post on the first of January 2021 (By the way, it is the first text that I registered in the third decade of the XXI century.). Since the mid of September 2020, I do not eat sweets. I feel much better.
Moreover, for more than a week, I do intermittent fasting. This means that I eat only between 7 p.m. to 12 p.m. Thanks to all these things, I am resistant to the evil that takes the form of false beauty. Why I do all these things? I mean, why I avoid eating sugar and why I started to do intermittent fasting? Because I want to stay healthy for as long as possible.
