• Questioning Your Beauty

    edited by Alexander Becker on November 09, 2006 | Link

    Take care of your expression and the impression you make on others is taking care of itself.

    The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity. Miguel De Cervantes

    Vanity? Consider this: You are exactly as beautiful as you need to be to identify with yourself. Your beauty is only for one person in the world. Your beauty is pleasure to the mind and senses. It's all and exclusively for you.

    Of course, beauty is highly subjective. The statement You are beautiful is revealing more about me than it is telling you anything about your looks.

    If you are beautiful in my eyes, isn't it like an implicit handshake, telling me that there is a potential compatibility? You are required, in this case, to see yourself as beautiful as I do. Why is it that you are beautiful and someone else is not? To me? To you?

    How come that on days you feel less than gorgeous, people keep making you compliments about your looks? This may be proof of the objective state of your beauty but on the other hand, isn't it also showing the difference between your emotions and your expression, furthermore, is this not a sign of the subjective nature of the message conveyed through mimics and gestures, let alone a particular physique?

    Please note and understand the correlation between It's what's upfront that counts and the notion that beauty is your state of mind or an expression thereof which only helps and ultimately addresses yourself.

    I would recognize your very beauty even if it was completely invisible. You want to know why? Because it is my reality and my beauty.

    So what, you say and I reply If understood as intended, this should be the end to all beauty-related insecurities. You still care about your looks and strive to make the best of your potential but you are not going to doubt your beauty anymore. Since everyone perceives you the way he or she wants to see you, why would you depend on the feedback? The experience of beauty can't be denied but the reception and the interpretation, the particular effect varies tremendously.

    Beauty is the difference between your expression and the impression you leave. The former is within your realm of influence while the latter is simply not your problem.

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