Even the most beautiful woman poops
The title is a bit much, but this is a story about a lesson from a mentor during a drinking party in my student days.
When I first heard this title, I thought, "What on earth are you talking about?" but once I heard the story, the content was indeed...
There was a stunningly beautiful woman whom a timid male student admired.
He would always watch her at school and wanted to confess his feelings, but he could never find the courage.
His friends would tease him, saying, "Just tell her already" or "You're such a coward," and while he felt frustrated, they still listened to his worries time and time again.
One day, he gathered his courage, called her to the riverbank, and confessed. His friends watched from a distance.
A long exchange between him and the beautiful woman seen from afar.
She left the scene, and his friends immediately rushed over to him and asked, "How did it go?"
"It's over... I've been crushed..."
His friends comforted him, and they all drank away their sorrows that night, but his heart remained heavy.
The next day.
He was in a toilet stall at school trying to do his business when someone entered the next stall.
The toilets back then were shared by men and women, and the space under the stalls was connected by a single trench where water flowed from upstream to carry waste away.
As he was doing his business, a huge poop floated by from the next stall 💩. He was wide-eyed with shock at the size of it, but he was even more shocked when he left the stall.
It turned out the person in the next stall was the beautiful woman who had rejected his confession the day before. He locked eyes with her, and she walked away looking embarrassed.
At that moment, he thought:
"That's right..."Even the most beautiful woman poops..."
He had viewed the beautiful woman as someone "out of his reach" or "from another world." And yet, that beautiful woman was taking a huge poop 💩 in a toilet stall...
He realized the following:
・A beautiful woman is just a human being 👩
・Even the woman I love so much poops 💩
・The person I thought I loved is just a human being 👤
・If that's the case, there must be plenty of other beautiful women out there! ❤️
・No point in moping around! 💪
・Time to find the next beautiful woman! 👰♀️
It's a rather unusual perspective, but it seems to have hit the mark; "even the most beautiful woman poops" becamea keyword to keep his excited self in check.
And I realized later that this phrase doesn't just apply to beautiful women.
Anyone, no matter who, poops.
In other words, the people you admire, respect, or have feelings for are not gods; they are human beings just like you, and humans poop. So, even if you think they are amazing, they aren't actually that special. More importantly, since they are human just like you, don't worry about them too much!
By the way, that student was... my mentor (lol).
He told the story without revealing it was about himself, so the punchline was perfect, and it stayed in everyone's memory. As expected of my mentor. Well played.