I'm not my skin

I saw my cousin excited for her arranged marriage. She just finalised from the photos that came, a handsome & attractive husband. She has not even met him. Then, what is her parameter? Appearance? Is that all what matters?

Maybe ‘Beauty is just skin-deep.’

I felt disappointed because for me, all that matters is inner beauty. For me, it is most important to know whether he’s full of lust or love? Cruel or compassionate? Frustrated or forgiving?

It is great if he’s good-looking too but that’s not my parameter because this so-called beauty is transient, it withers away in no time.

There is no relation between how you look and how you live your life. Outer beauty doesn’t give you happiness, it is the trait of inner beauty. I’m sure we all can think of numerous incidents, when so-called attractive people committed suicide. They were all miserable. They lacked inner strength.

You can be good-looking yet repulsive because of pride, arrogance and nature of looking down upon others or you can be non-good looking yet beautiful. It all depends on whether your constant companions are jealousy and inferiority-complex OR love and kindness.

Let me ask you something, would you meet someone at that time of the day when you don’t look “good physically” (unkempt hair, oily face and smelly mouth say, when you just woke up)? I suppose not.

But people have seen us filled with hatred, enmity and what not! May be it is normal for us! May be we are used to “inner ugliness”! We never make any effort to remove it, this ugliness doesn't even bother us.

I want to look physically beautiful but not at the cost of inner beauty.Inner beauty is essential. Everything else is a bonus :)

The source of my philosophy can be found by visiting School of Life