A beautiful person.
What is a beautiful person?
I'm not talking about the inner beauty of a person, no no no. Just the physical one.
Typically it's someone who's fun to look at. Someone whose appearance is tolerable—and even enjoyable—to the eye. We love those kinds of people, right? I do too.
Then what about ugly people? The people who are not fun to look at?
Y'see, I say that, yes, ugly people do exist. No matter how much we deny it, when we see someone whose appearance isn't appealing to us, our minds know it. We just choose not to say it because we don't like hurting people's feelings.
On one hand, it's good that we don't say our hurtful and controversial thoughts, but on the other hand, it kinda feels like this mentality will probably develop a type of people who only expect to hear good things from others [just like the people in vent #2]
The only difference is that these people become sensitive to negative talk and instead of getting angry over it, they become depressed.
I say that's a problem. And i think I have a solution. Which is?
Acceptance.
Honestly, I find acceptance to be the solution to many problems in life and i love it.
In this case, accepting that your appearance is not great and that it's okay will solve the sensitivity. So when a person calls you ugly, you could shrug it off already knowing that "yeah man I know I look like a freaking mashed potato."
You could call it being harsh, I call it being realistic.
I also always work on not looking in the mirror for the whole week just for this. So i wouldn't go around saying "oh my gosh I'm gorgeous" or "oh hell nah I'm ugly." It makes me remember not to judge people's appearances and to stop looking superficially at things.
From a religious point of view, I say that everything in life is either a recompense, a blessing, or a test. When I'm naturally blessed with something from the start, I thank God for it. When I do something good or bad, the consequences await me. When something good or bad happens, I'd know it's a test from God to see how I'd deal with the situation—will I choose the good route or the bad route?
So basically: if you're ugly or pretty, accept it and live with it as either a reward or test. It works for me, at least.
