True pulchritude is invisible

“You shall be addressed the way you are dressed.” The aphorism that is considered the coin of the realm in the world filled with self-conscious slaves.

A preponderance of individuals’ subconscious minds have been programmed with the fallacious belief that people should be judged based on the physical aspects.

How often do we invest our time and effort in ameliorating the within? Why are we so focused on meeting people’s expectations in order for them to have a pleasant perception of us, more than being what we want to be? Why are we dictated by the external forces?

It’s so sad how a cornucopia of people are severely oblivious to the beauty of developing their within.

However, developing the within is more complex as opposed to being feasibly affected by the without. Which means gobs of effort will be required in the process. I’m, actually flabbergasted by how most of us expect formal education to teach us how to master the within – it’s the knowledge that will never be fed to us, instead we should invest gobs of time and effort in acquiring it.

Back then, posters of our idols or remote mentors, or role models used to be a ubiquitous scene in our bedrooms which have been replaced by technology by being altered into wallpapers and screensavers. We see and admire, or even wish to acquire the success and fame they have but our biggest mistake is that we are more concerned about their fame and success, not about how they got to where they currently are?

All of us want to reach our respective crescendos but only a few are willing to seek ways to get there and are willing to do all the work that is required to get there. Most successful people, often say you need to work on yourself first or you need to change yourself first if you want to change the world – which is proven to be true.

In order to pass an exam, you need to store the pertinent knowledge inside your calvaria, to win the 100m dash, you need to work those 10 000 hours in practice to master that race, the list goes on…

Same goes with human interactions, we often hear phrases like: “first impression lasts", “you shall be addressed the way you are dressed” and so forth. If you peruse these generally accepted laws, you’d ascertain that they are mostly built on physical appearance or are mostly influenced by the physical aspects.

This kind of thinking rules large corporations and the lives of self-conscious individuals. People, treat you as you look physically. Only a selected few still search for and understand that the internal aspects truly define people.

True pulchritude is in the invisible.

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