Friday, September 6, 2019

The notion of ugliness


Who is ugly?

That neighbourhood bald uncle with a paunch?

That girl with unwaxed arms?

Or that acid attack survivor whose picture you saw this morning?

In my opinion, there are no ugly faces, only ugly thoughts.

I blatantly refuse to accept this whole concept of ‘ugliness’ of faces. Nobody has the right to term someone as ugly. The only people who term others as ‘ugly’ are the ones who are unable to embrace themselves. Ugliness isn’t about the face of the other person, its rather about the thought process of the person calling him/her ugly.

We all are ugly and beautiful. Everyone has beautiful faces and certain beautiful qualities. But everyone also has some ugly qualities. These ugly or negative qualities are the only ugliness of yours you need to worry about.

Having a pimple on your face or fat on your belly doesn’t make you ugly. But your impatience, anger, sadness does. Embrace that. Embrace your inner beauty and your inner ugliness. Work on it. Recognize it, realize it. The only person who has a right to call you ‘ugly’ is you. You are the person who knows you best. You are your best critic. Fall in love with those drawbacks, that inner ugliness. You may not be able to turn that ugliness to beauty, but once you realize and embrace it, you wont consider it negative anymore.

So love yourself for who you are, not what you look like.



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