59 How Beautiful Are You?

I grew up reading and knowing that a thing of beauty is a joy forever! It left an indelible mark on my mind and soul as a child... When I was young, I read many books, including fairy tales. Most of the books described heroes who were handsome and heroines who were beautiful. So, I believed I had to be beautiful if I wanted to become a great person. It was a hard time for me. Whenever I looked at someone who was more beautiful than me, I was stressed.
There were times, when young Anvitha ran to her momma saying “Mommy, I wanna look pretty!! I wanna be the most beautiful!” and my momma; with all her cuddles and hugs, answered me with a smile saying; “Dear, You are the most beautiful kid on earth!” I often smiled back; but there were way too many things running in my mind. I wondered why she was lying:-? Because I knew, am NOT the most beautiful girl on this planet. For sure! There was this good looking blonde in my class, whose complexion was fair as the moon and whose skin was bright as the sun. With a long golden hair, pink lips and blue eyes; she was Barbie of my class and school! I envied her! :| I hated being a brunette :( (Something which am proud of now, though :D)

Time passed by and we grew up to be matured individuals… (Atleast me :P :D) That perfect Barbie looking blonde was still around in my higher secondary school but no longer do I see her with friends around! A guy who wooed her in primary school now says he wouldn’t turn to her even if she’s the last woman on earth left for him! I started realizing the meaning and importance of inner beauty! Now I know that my mom wasn’t lying!Truly said, Beauty is in the eye of the beholder… Because when you ask someone like me, “Who’s the most beautiful woman on earth” I may not need a breath to answer “Mother Teresa” and someone like my friend next door may answer “Jessica Simpson”! My brother may say “Marilyn Monroe” and my Mom says it’s “Oprah Winfrey” for being the strong and confident woman she is! What does this mean? Who’s the wrong judge among us? No; nobody! Be it be Mother Teresa, Oprah Winfrey or Marilyn Monroe, it’s not the beauty in them, rather it’s the beauty in our eyes which makes us look at something beautifully!

 When I was 5, I drew colored lines on a paper, made it as clumsy as possible and wrote on the paper “I love you daddy”! And my dad still preserved the piece of paper saying it’s the most beautiful painting he had ever seen! Obviously, it’s a beautiful painting only for my dad and to the rest of the world, it’s a joke. 

One of my cousins, who madly fell in love with this beautiful girl who looks extra ordinarily good, married her just to realize there is nothing extra ordinary in her, rather she has some serious attitude problems! He wanted a life where he wants his wife to be his best friend, the one who brings energy into his family and home! But it rather turned out to be a day in and day out game where he has to keep her and himself away from his near and dear just to avoid further drama… During my collage days, I’ve read this world famous ballad “La Belle Dame sans Merci” (French: "The Beautiful Lady without Pity") by the English poet John Keats. Something which describes all that glitters is not gold!

Well, does this mean good looks do not carry any weight? I asked my mommy. And she says “They do carry their weight! You can't judge a book by its cover.... but if it has an attractive cover, you're more likely to take it off the shelf and see what's inside. Just the difference is; today’s youth picks the book which has an attractive cover and often miss to read what’s inside the book. And by the time they realize the book is not their kind; it’s too late!”

And for all the women who feel they are not beautiful… “Girls, we are wonderfully and beautifully created by God. He gave us all the physical attributes that attracts any damn person to us. But much more is the inner beauty or the beauty of the soul. Don't buy the lies of the media and the industry that says you have to be a size four to be beautiful. Look into the inner part of you. That's who you really are. That's what makes you, ‘YOU’. True beauty is intangible. You have that. Find it and accentuate who you really are. We don’t need a man who loves us because we look beautiful! We need a man who loves us for what we are! And if you are loved for what you are, he’ll find you the most beautiful :)” 

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