Because beauty is, as they say, entirely in the eye of the beholder, it becomes impossible to objectively judge the beauty of a given object. It depends entirely on the context. A flower that might be beautiful in its natural context, for example, becomes the exemplary of hideousness if placed beside the rarest specimens the world over. Such an unfair competition is usually at fault behind the consideration of certain things as “ugly” when they should really be ranked among the fairest of their kind.

So beautiful outdoor showers cannot be discarded as myth out of hand, because a shower system considers not only the reality of itself, but also the surrounding reality. Is it part of a garden that it complements nicely, and vice versa? The most excellently designed outdoor shower, in a context that does not suit it, must be considered after all, a failure. Even if it is wrought of worked gold and solid platinum, if it is aesthetically disproportionate to its surroundings there is no way it can be considered beautiful – because beauty is never to be judged in a vacuum.

And due to this state, even the most hideously plastic portable outdoor shower cannot be considered – objectively – ugly. For among its kind it may well be a fantastic specimen, well constructed and able to perform its function at a much better capacity than others in its class. To judge too quickly based on one’s own preconceptions is folly, as it may well lead you to pass up opportunities that would be highly beneficial to you as a person.

So always be aware that beauty is in your eye, and if you cannot see the beauty that another person sees, he is not wrong – he merely has a different opinion. Differences of opinion do exist, after all, and it is merely necessary to remember the essential fact that as an opinion has no intrinsic worth all on its own, it must be judged based on the caliber of the person it issues from. A person’s personal worth adds more weight to their words, after all.