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Beauty as they say is skin deep, but scratch the surface and you will find how shallow or deep that beauty is. We spend so many hours day after day, morning after every morning grooming and trying to look good in front of the mirror. Sometimes, we worry too much about what clothes to wear, what shoes to go on with a certain dress, or is our hair properly done, etc. etc. Well, there is nothing bad about grooming and trying to look good. I for one, doesn't want myself to look awful and be the butt of jokes by people around me. Like you know, forgetting to put on a deodorant and you start stinking inside the elevator on the way to your work; or you forgot to take your regular morning mouth wash and you suddenly spoke to someone beside you inside a bus service and say, “Ah… nice weather, isn’t it?” Yukkk… that's really embarrassing... Kadiri!!!
Although "grooming" (the art of trying to present yourself in a manner “pleasing to the eyes” of other people) is very much important, we must also take into practice the "art of presenting yourself in a manner “endearing to other people” as regular as we groom ourselves everyday.
Our character and attitudes, our manner of speech and “verbal disposition,” and our whole personality speaks so much more about who we are and what we are. It leaves a more lasting impression upon people. It is the inner self that makes one desirable to be with or someone to be avoided, regardless of what name brand of make up, or cologne, or dress you’re wearing.
If you see yourself in the mirror as someone who has the face (or the body) that could launch a thousand ships, it may do you well if these are complimented by a character that exudes the very quality that makes men great, well loved and whose company is sought by others. Sought out not because of their surface appearance, but because of a different kind of beauty that touches deeply into the very heart of one’s being.
Strive to acquire and perfect the art of a pleasing personality, if not, you may well be the proverbial old hag hiding inside somebody else’s skin (a nasty wolf in sheep’s clothing). I know that you don't want to be with someone with a bitchy attitude (pardon my language, please!) and a hateful disposition, do you? Whose mouth always swear and curses as if the “period” and all the rest of the punctuation marks were not invented to end a sentence. Or would you rather be with people whose outlook in life is always positive no matter what happens, and whose disposition always encourage you to become a better person yourself, and help brings out the best in you?
Don’t answer… I know.
But you know what… you may not have the beauty or the profile of a matinee idol, and perhaps you may already have convinced yourself that yours is the face (or the body) that only your mother could love, you can still be beautiful if your character and attitude and disposition in life always makes another person feel great about themselves --- because they found and discovered what a great and beautiful person you are to be with. Attitude is that inner fragrance that draws out or drives away people, depending on what "odor" it makes.
So don’t
let your beauty be just on the surface, let it sink deeper where it matters
the most. So that the next time somebody “scratch the surface,” they’ll
find more of it in abundance. Stay beautiful, in words and in deeds
…
“No landscape can equal a human
face
that’s been molded by its own character.”
(Francoise Giroud)
Please forgive the author. He is trying his darndest best to write, although he doesn't have any writing or journalistic experience. He is suffering from a mild delusion that he was a best selling author and can do it all like anybody else. So please be kind to him