I've often wondered what it felt like to be so beautiful that people look at you with admiration, heads turn, and I've wondered about the satisfaction that must come from looking in the mirror. I do know this: Physical beauty fades.

I like this video Alanocu. What got me thinking about this subject was watching "The Mirror has two faces" yesterday. The movie seemed so sexist that I almost wanted to cringe, but there is a particularly poignant scene where Barbara Streisand asks her mother in the film (played by Lauren Bacall) what it was like to be beautiful. It made me think about how much our society values physical beauty.

All the truly physically beautiful people I've known (and there are a few in my family) prove the point that beauty is only skin deep. The truly beautiful are generally vain and utterly vacuous. They also seem to be the most acutely insecure, especially as they age. They don't have to cultivate their intellects or their personalities as they trade off and slide by on their looks alone - particularly the females. But, when all is said and done, it's the heart and the personality that wins out in the end. God alone knows who would want to spend their lives with Ken and Barbie.

Not all beautiful people are Ken and Barbies and far from all ugly people have cultivated intellects! In fact, most of the "stupid people" I have met, have been ugly, but maybe they are just ugly to me, because the ugliness they have on the inside, shines through to the outside. A beautiful person looses their lustre in a flash, if they reveal an ugly soul. I do not define beauty by how the physical container of that person looks. Shallow people would do that, and they come in all shapes and sizes.

I've been a pastor for 20-some years, and have come to see great beauty as a handicap. Few have been more routinely victimized, among the parishioners I've known, than women who were especially beautiful. Few have heard more professions of love by utter jerks who were excellent actors.
It's a kind of wealth, I guess - it attracts leeches.

I can honestly say that I have stared into the pain of beauty and it hurt.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Have you met a person with outward looks average; but when you see the inner soul they become beautiful? Some super models was asked why they do not date, the answer may surprise you, they say that most men are intimidated to ask. I have to agree with TN on this one.

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