What Is Beauty?

[NightskyeB4Dawn]

There’s some really good conversation going on with this thread. We all hear the things like “beauty is more than skin deep”, and my personal favorite “beauty fades, dumb is forever”. I too think that as we age, we think of beauty differently. I always joke with my hubby that he must have married me for my money because he sure as hell didn’t marry me for my looks! I fell in love with my hubby’s kind gentle ways, and his bitingly sarcastic wit. Well, his eyes too, the most beautiful hazel eyes. He had the whole dad bod Thing going on and a beer gut, but I thought he was the most handsome man in the world. He told me at the time early in our relationship that he thought I looked a lot like Princess Diana, and so his nickname for me was princess. 

Sometimes I think of these vain celebrities who are only famous because of their looks, which they definitely use to their advantage. But as they age, they won’t all age well, and eventually their looks will no longer open doors. People love beauty and youth, but to me life’s experiences and humility are so much better, and I think as people get older they have more of the latter. Beauty though is more than looks though. Beauty is a great story, loving someone all the more when they’re going through chemo and have lost all their hair, treating others kindly and with respect.

About an hour ago I was talking to some friends about this. I get a bug in my brain and it takes a while for me to get it out. I found it interesting this is something that was discussed as far back as Biblical time. In Proverbs, Lemuel speaks of the warnings his mother gave him about women as she raised him. She warned him to be careful of women because charm can be deceptive and beauty doesn't last. Now I am not going to list all the things she did tell him to look for in a wife, because if a guy would hold all women to that list, there would be maybe three women a year in the whole world, that would ever get married, and none would come from the US.

Thousand of years ago we were teaching young people about the foolhardiness and dangers in falling for the femme fatale. Today we are making them desirable and teaching little girls it is normal and acceptable. Yet how many fathers dream of their little girl being the hot desirable girl in school?