The man said, “You are the most beautiful woman in the world.”
But of course, for her that was something very difficult to believe. Women these days find such things too cliché, too common and too superficial. So she says, “I’m not.”
You see, the problem is this: It really is very difficult for the man to prove otherwise. Because it is very unlikely that his girlfriend is ACTUALLY the Miss Universe, which would then make it very easy to argue that she was INDEED the most beautiful woman in the world, although that might not be true as well.
To say something like, “beauty is in the eye of the beholder”, or “beauty is subjective” (they mean the same thing anyway) is really quite cliché, and it actually doesn’t mean anything much either. Because the fact that beauty is subjective makes his statement of “you are the most beautiful in the world” a very subjective statement as well.
But the thing is, when the man said such a thing, he meant it. He didn’t say it just to please his girlfriend or make her happy. He didn’t say it just so he can end the night on a “beautiful” note. He said it because he meant it.
Well, when the man said she was the most beautiful woman in the world, it’s not because she’s the Miss Universe, or that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but because in his eyes, in his world, there really is nobody else.
