on being beautiful

I aint talking of "you're beautiful to me"or any such shit that people speak when they either in love or circumstance make them convince the mselves they are..

I am talking about the real genetic celebraties, the real 10/10's., the really beautiful.

I work with a girl who is genuinely beautiful. She is 21 and by the time she is 30 there is every chance she wont be perhaps, but she is now.

But its weird how people treat her and react to her (guys and girls). If she is pleasant to someone people call her lovely (guys AND girls), if she is polite people say how bright she is. If she is (which I suppose she is) an ordinary girl every aspect of her personality gets hyped up by everyone who knows her.

The thing I find weird if that its girls as much as boys who see everything she does which is nomal as special and lovely.

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I wonder what it must be like to be beutiful

Is there a loneliness to it, and you just sity back and enjoy it till you hit mid 30's and its all over?

 

What we perceive as beautiful in a young person is normally based on outward appearances, since they have not had enough life experience to be exceedingly virtuous or cleverly funny, even. The most beautiful do not lose anything at 30, but instead gain a personal awareness and comfort level, thus making them more appealing and more beautiful, IMO.

There is a loneliness to it if a beautiful person defines themselves only by culturally imposed standards of beauty. Perhaps she is treated better now than a plain looking person, but to sustain this good treatment, she'd better work on developing a beautiful story to go with it all.

 

Maybe this is just your skewed view of beauty ... but I honestly think your problem lies here. That's not "real" beauty. That's just skin deep and good genes. That's attraction. That's sexyness. A very sexy person can be very unsexy when it comes to the bedroom department. That's primal.

We're not animals. We know that there is more to skin deep. Unfortunately not all of us see through that.

Also, beautiful people can be lonely if they surround themselves with superficial people. I should know. I surrounded myself with superficial people.

Not that I'm beutiful, or anything.

 

It's a hell of a lot easier to be beautiful in your 20s than in your 50s, not that I ever was or will be.

 

I'm sure I wouldn't know. Seems hard to believe it would be any worse than not being beautiful, though.

 

I was beautiful once, then I cut my mullet off and no longer gained the charisma bonus.

 

Angelina Joli is hideous. I'm sorry.

 

I recently went to a reunion. People I hadn't seen for nearly 40 years. The girls who were stunning back in their late teens and early twenties had gone to pot, so to speak. I was no raving beauty in high school but have managed to take care of myself over the years. I looked better by far than most of them while still no raving beauty.

We all got on fine but it was not beyond me to remember that I was not in their circle back in the day - not beautiful enough to hang out with them. Fortunately, it seemed most of them had moved on from that shallow place.

That's the thing about superficial beauty. It goes away. I feel sorry for some uber beautiful women. At some point, we all have to let go and I think it must be so difficult for those women who, for a good part of their lives, were treated as someone special simply because of their level of outer attractiveness. Those women who can't move beyond that image of themselves to develop something of greater substance within to rely on.

I see these sorts of women all the time. 40, 50, 60 and beyond still trying to hang on to their youth and attractiveness. Empty shells. It's sad really.

Beauty can be a curse. Ugliness as well, I suppose. What comes of it all is what we make of it. I look at someone like Madeleine Albright . A very beautiful young women who didn't let her beauty run roughshod over her intelligence or stand in the way of one day becoming Secretary of State.



I don't envy beautiful young women these days. It's far too easy for them to get lost in their own hype. Easier than it was in my day. Competition is fierce and staying on top requires greater and greater effort. The night is a bust unless you're the most beautiful women in the club.

Average is good. Even below average. Gives a woman more opportunities for growth in every area possible. Honest.

 

Yes, you should be sorry.

 

Heck yeah ... this sizzled like a branding iron on my inner bison herd.


Hi Strange Famous
I know the kind of beauty you're talking about.
That type always felt to me to be the blank canvas aspect of people.

I reckon my own eyes tended to notice and label beauty in terms of expressions and responses to what's going on. External signals of internal processes were my main way of identifying beauty and ugliness and I found it impossible to ignore the colour of people's souls when I judged them.

 

A significant amount of sheep find them "very attractive" because 1) they are usually photographed beneath strategic lighting 2) wearing pounds of make-up and 3) then photoshopped in half. Most of their accoutrements are fake; this includes their tits, teeth and hair. The significant volume that find the Joli's -a cross between Mick Jagger and John Voight-of the world beautiful, is because you have been instructed to do so.

 

There's a saying Japanese saying that goes "You could spend a lifetime looking for a perfect blossom..and it would not be a wasted life" which to me means that you could spend all your time looking for your version of beauty. and it would be worth the search.

 

Yeah, nobody instructed me to like Jolie. I personally think she could cut back on the lip injections, and needs a couple more sandwiches, but she's quite attractive. Sorry to burst your bubble, but other people have preferences for beauty that you don't share. That in no way implies that they were instructed to have these preferences or were somehow duped by the media. Brad Pitt, who is lovely in his own way ( I hates him so much!!! ), and in no need to pander to her beauty, finds her quite attractive. It may be her intelligence that seals the deal though.

I like to think that I've got a diverse eye for beauty. All types of people can be beautiful, if you pay attention.


( I don't really hate Pitt. He's a good actor. )

 

I hate Pitt. I have to hate him.

It's on principle. Being that lucky needs to be balanced out by my hate.