Beauty is only skin deep!

What is this thing called beauty? Is it all about one’s looks, one’s sense of dressing and everything that makes a person look attractive? Or is it beyond that?

We live in a very superficial world. Everyone is only interested in the outer covering, no one cares to bother about what lies within. We all are very familiar with the saying, “Don’t judge a book by its cover.” But when it comes to selecting a book we certainly first go by the cover. The first book that we grab at a bookstore is the one that has the most attractive covering. A beautiful picture or an attractive and colorful font is what grabs our attention. Nobody picks a book that has a very subtle covering. After all it must be appealing to the eyes. What the book contains comes way later. And then having purchased the most attractive looking book from the book store we soon realize that it contains nothing else but crap!

When we can be so biased towards appearance even in the selection of a book that actually has nothing got to do with it imagine the case with others. In every college the most attractive girl no matter how mean and selfish she may be gets the most number of proposals. It is the dream of every boy in that college to make her his girlfriend. But how many proposals does a girl who may be the best at heart get? Nobody is interested in making her his girlfriend because her looks are not worth being flaunted. Same is the case with girls. It is a matter of pride to have a boyfriend good looking enough to make all her female friends jealous.

What people fail to understand is the fact that looks are very much deceptive. The appearance outside may just be a veil to cover one’s true identity. What lies inside may be completely opposite of what we perceive to be within.

And this bias towards appearance prevails everywhere. Right from getting jobs, to endorsements in ads, to getting favors. We have so many beauty pageants every year where a girl is rewarded with her beauty. And to win this competition you ought to be the best looking soul on earth with a perfect body, lovely hair, flawless skin, mesmerizing eyes, perfect smile and so on. The count goes on forever. But is beauty only limited to that? What about her character, her nature, her behavior towards others, her attitude towards life. Don’t these things matter? And if they do, then why aren’t these things considered while judging the participants?

What people fail to realize is that beauty is not just skin deep but much more beyond that. I am not saying here that those who are good looking possess the worst of hearts. There are many who by God’s grace are prettiest not just by the face but also in their hearts. But I am just trying to advocate on the point that it is wrong to judge a person only by his or her appearance. It is wrong to make wrong judgments based on appearances. And who are we to discriminate among people. We are all after all God’s creation. And God certainly does not give everything to everyone. Some are gifted with face and some are gifted with a heart. And it is up to us to decide whether in the long run the face would matter or the heart because after a point of time beauty may fade but a person’s deeds will remain forever to stay!