Inner Beauty

I think people should say "you're beautiful inside out" instead of inside AND out. I think we can agree that outer beauty is pretty much entirely a societal construct, but I believe that when we remove the "and" we acknowledge the beauty that emanates from within. Such beauty is not necessarily visible, it is an energy reverberating from your inner being. In such a visual world this may sound like a bunch of bologna, but if you think about those you truly care about, you can feel that energy of their inner beauty affecting you, bringing yours out as well.

Once again, this beauty isn't physical. And if we try to compare such beauty to physical beauty we fall short. They are completely separate and unrelated.

Sometimes we misjudge someone by their physical beauty, placing an expectation upon their character and then becoming blind to who they truly are, like the trope of wearing rose-colored glasses.

If you detach the relatedness of physical beauty and inner beauty (which we could now call something else, such as genuine being or character), how does that change your view of others?

Deep breaths,

Hannah