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Beauty
October 30, 2017
“Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone” – Dorothy Parker
I am not beautiful. This is NOT a cut down to myself, it is simply a fact. I don’t turn heads when I enter a room, no great hush comes over the crowd. I can look pretty if I put some effort in, cute if I try, but beautiful. No, I am not beautiful.
The really big upside to this is that I have never relied on my looks for things. I’m also not panicking as I grow older that my beauty is fading.
One of my very favorite movies is “Shallow Hal”. It got a little corny, but the point it made was
clear. Beauty is what beauty does. It is so much more important to have a beautiful soul then a beautiful face and body.
I have seen some beautiful things in my life. Beautiful landscapes, sunrises, sunsets, flowers, babies, and a few truly beautiful people.
Beauty is relative. esthetically speaking, facial beauty is based on symmetrics. The more symmetrical a face is, the more beautiful it is deemed.
When my girls were babies I would sometimes carry them in a front carrier. Their little heads would be right under my chin. As people we passed looked at my babies, they would smile a special “oh my, how beautiful” type smile. I assume that is a look that beautiful people get on the regular.
I have met some people in my life that are beautiful. Truth is, they were not so beautiful on the
inside. And on the flip side, someone who wouldn’t be deemed “beautiful” becomes so to me, when they show kindness and love to the world.
In my opinion, our outsides are our vessels. What is inside is what makes one beautiful.