Beauty, it comes and goes no matter how old or young you are

Beauty, its something we all strive for isn’t it. I know I do.  It sits on the top of my list of goals, whether I admit it or not.  Every morning I look in the mirror and ask myself,

“Do I look beautiful today?”

The answer changes daily.  One moment, I can be thinking I am a total beauty and the next I’ll think, aaaack I am ugly!

How is that even possible, I have the same face every day.  My face, eyes, ears, mouth, and nose don’t change shape or color, I always look the same.  Yet somehow what seems to me one day to be slim, cute, pretty, shapely, perfect, and beautiful can the next day seem long, puny, big, thin, bulbous, and ugly.

This has intrigued me, because really one doesn’t visually change at all.  At least not a persons basic look.  I see people all the time, some of them over and over, and for the most part their look doesn’t change.  I see them, they look like them self.  I see them again, they still look like them self.  Regardless of clothes and makeup.  Though sometimes the clothes and make up enhance a persons look, they are still recognizable as them self.

Okay so this doesn’t figure in when a person has really gone off the deep end as far as personal hygiene goes.  You know, long scraggly hair, unkempt beard (men), brown teeth, very dirty skin, jungle like eyebrows, etc.  I am just saying there is a certain amount of personal hygiene required for a person to look like them self (particularly for men).     It also doesn’t include when a person has had plastic surgery.  That can really change a persons looking like them self.  I must also add drastic weight gain or loss, that can drastically change a persons recognizability as well, but not always.

So where am I going with all of this?

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.  How you perceive yourself is always going to be more critical than you perceive others.  So the days when I am feeling particularly ugly chances are I look the same as I did yesterday to everyone else.

Also, I think each person is beautiful in his or her own way.  Maybe not attractive to everyone on the planet, but certainly to someone, somewhere.

I’ll have to keep that in mind on the days when I think I look ugly, because my husband always thinks I look beautiful (so he says) and who else do I really need to look beautiful for?

@–>–Rose