Her full figured body with the waist of an hour glass, swinging her hips when she walks with the elegance of a zebra, her big bright beautiful eyes that could light up everyone’s heart, her flawless chocolate coloured skin with a caramelized glaze that makes Cleopatra an ‘average Jane’. Her body is like a mythical wonderland that with just a glance, you disappear into a dream come true of a masterpiece in a gallery of goddesses. With just a smile, her indescribable beauty brings fantasy fiction into reality.
BUT, she is ugly. She is very ugly that if her heart was a place, it would be a dark, deserted lonely place with no signs of life. A very dark cold place that not even a lifeless stone can stand. She feeds on the external attention that she garners by her angelic and flawless façade but indeed her heart resembles the witches of the fairy tales. She forgets that her outer shell is not eternal for it will eventually wear out with age.
Enough of the Shakespearean analogy, my issue is with regard to the concept of beauty. We all have our preferences of what we term as beautiful people. As human beings, we are very quick to thoughtlessly judge a person just by their physical looks notwithstanding what beholds the inner person. It is more often than not that a better looking person gets it easy in life than a less attractive person due to such convictions.
The outer beauty is a subjective cultural concept that varies with place and time but the inner beauty is a sacred and timeless concept. My above description of a beautiful woman may not be as appealing to others as it may seem. Beautiful people are those that glow from within. They are those that are selfless, loving, caring, honest and kind towards others. Beautiful people may not possess star like looks but their hearts are priceless and their quality is timeless.
Moral of my story:
You can always buy outer beauty but there isn’t a shop in the world where you can walk in and find humility on display.
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