Friday, January 20, 2012

Beauty is pretty obvious.

I was working once with a group of children which included a  little boy with Down's Syndrome. He needed special attention and assistance and so my assistant for the class had become his very own assistant; and he loved her. My young, male colleague, after class one day as we were chatting, leaned against the wall and nodded in the direction of the pretty, blonde, teenage assistant who was doing some sweeping at the other end of the hall.  "Did you see the way that little boy adored her, and couldn't stop gazing up at her?" he asked me. "Life is so easy when you're pretty." The second comment said with the slightest hint of resentfulness. The guy himself was not by any means unattractive but clearly had self-image issues and regretted the fact that he himself was not in that 'pretty' category that would make his life so easy.
 He was right in that the girl was very attractive and the little boy obviously thought her very pleasant to look at and probably also because of her naturally good way with him, he warmed to her in his own little way. It is true that there are people who are just so physically striking, that not staring and refraining from desperately wanting to take in every detail can be very difficult and even embarrassing when you make eye contact a little too much! I don't know though how easy good looks make one's life. I can only imagine that very beautiful people are inflicted by alot of unwanted attention, ontop of the desirable amount that anyone would be pleased with.
Apparently 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder' and as illustrated by this case, so the idea of an easy life is also in the mind of the beholder. I'm not sure what my colleague felt classified an easy life.. not having to fight for attention? Being loved by everybody simply because of the way you look? And there are many frogs out there who are not 'pretty' but who are very well loved and I'm sure have relatively easy lives. These frogs even turn out to be somebody's Prince Charmings in the end.
Very beautiful people are obviously so. Their physical features make them stand out and everyone enjoys looking at that which is pretty. Sometimes though, this beauty, is the beauty which is too obvious. There's something far more pleasing in the discovery of 'pretty' in a place you never expected it*

If you don't kiss the frogs, you'll never know if they were your Happy Ever After or not!

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