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7 comments:
In a sense.
It is, however true, that often a person's true beauty can be seen in their face.
The eyes truly are so often the wondow to the soul and a persons facial features give one a clue as to how their face is often set.
One cannot use a face as a sole indicator, but so often, I'm afraid, people who look ugly truly are ugly people inside. Not always, but often.
To look truly beautiful, you do pretty much have to be truly beautiful.
Oil painting, yes.
Crushed - I think I know what you are trying to say here but just wonder what your thoughts are on someone who has a physical disfigurement. Beautiful inside but...
James - Do you think it is worthy of the National Portrait Gallery ;-)
Sadly, Cherie, what oftens happns in that case is that it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy. It takes a strong person to overcome that and full credit to those that do. But the fact is that it's far easier to be nice to people when people like being around you. And people like being around beautiful people. So unfair as it is, people with physical disfigurements often end up becoming rather bitter, hostile people and then this can often results to them instinctively treating others as they themselves feel they are treated.
So by the time one gets to my age, say, the people who weren't born ugly but act ugly have come to look ugly and the people who born ugly have generally have come to act ugly.
A good case in point would be a close friend of mine. If asked without thinking whether or not he was handsome, I'd say yes. Very good looking. Of course, if one looked in terms of technicality, he isn't, particularly. If one turned his perpetual cheeky grin into a snarl, it would change his entire face. In one fell swoop.
It's why Kylie and Gillian Anderson have always looked stunning. You can tell they are nice people, it comes across in their faces. Jodie Foster would be another good example. It doesn't in J-lo, you can tell she's a pretty lousy human being.
I think the way saee it is that beauty can have a hard edge, but you can spot that. But pretty- pretty looking people tend to be pretty inside. As a general rule.
I do admire aesthetically challenged people who overcome the natural hostility of people and still turn out warm and loving individuals, but I' afraid my experience is, there are less of them who succeed in doing so than we'd like to believe as a culture, I'm afraid.
Crushed - I don't know, maybe I am in a different world from you. But in my experience people enjoy being around fun, charming, dynamic, enigmatic people and that has no bearing on their physical attributes.
Quite the opposite from:
"The Picture of Dorian Gray"
I think that is one of my favourite images of you.
Liz - Awww! thank you :-)
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