What is your definition of........

SpiceItUp

......Beauty?

I know the whole sentiment of beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Even Rod Sterling had his say on the matter (boy I loved that episode).

What is beautiful in your opinion? What makes something/someone beautiful and why?

I have been told by various people that I am nice, sweet, cute, even *gasp* sexy but noone has ever desribed my outward appearance as beautiful (and no this is not about my insecurities with my looks and no I am not looking for cheap handouts with posters reassuring me I am "beautiful" so please spare me...after all you if you thought so you would have already said so ).

I am merely wondering what deems something/someone to be beautiful in your eyes.

Spice

Francois

I think you'd be better served by reading the pages of musings on quality, found about three/fourths of the way through the book, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance." A guy named Persig, I think it was, wrote the book back in the seventies. Very good.

Seriously.

francois

Bang

Grace, Care, Gift and Being.

SpiceItUp

I have heard of that book and also that it is very good. Haven't had the chance to read it though.

My reason for asking this querstion along with all the other "fluffy" questions that I post is because it allows me to see where different posters are coming from. It allows my mind to be a little more open to some posters when my normal tendencies is to call them a name...

I like to know more about the people that I am asscociating with on this board.

joannadandy

I can't define it, I can only give examples...

Laughter is beautiful.
Knowledge, and willingness to share that knowledge with others without expecting praise, or honor is beautiful (just sharing for the sheer exuberence of it all).
Thoughtfulness is beautiful. Giving an impromptu hug, hand pat, leaving a post-it-note that says "You rock the Kasbah and shock the monkey" are all thoughtful gestures that are beautiful.
Smiles are beautiful.
Fraility is beautiful.
Trust is beautiful.

To me, people who express these things are beautiful. Someone could like Elmer Fudd, but as long as they have a beautiful soul that's all that matters. I'm not saying looks are not important, I am just saying beauty to me needs a lot more. And a "pretty case"(i.e. physical attractiveness), bereft of the above mentioned qualities will cease to impress me, and will no longer be beautiful, but rather ugly in it's un-usefullness to me.

StinkyPantz

Are you talking both outward beauty and inward? Well, here's what I think:

Outward beauty in my opinion doesn't take much. I think dark skin, hair, and eyes are absolutely gorgeous. Hispanic people have always appealed to my eyes.

As far as inward beauty goes, that's kind of hard to answer. A person who loves themselves is beautiful to me. I like self confidence. A good listener is also beautiful.

MrMoe

An essence of hte human soul that glows outward... goes beyond looks. I think you are beautiful Spice because of the way you glow... My daughter is beautiful, SYN is beautiful, the Sun is beautiful, my cat is beautiful...

Cindy Crawford or Angelina Jolie may have this perfect face, everything just *so* but the glow, it is not there. You see?

This of course, is beauty to me.

Kisses,

Moe

teenyuck

Smiling, eyes, attitude, positive outlook

Things like these can light a person up. If they are down, depressed, unhappy etc, it comes through.

No matter how physically attractive someone is, if they are negative and unhappy, it comes out. That reduces their beauty in my eyes.

Windchaser

Einstein was so right. I'm sucking my thumb as I type this.

Edited by - windchaser on 29 July 2002 19:25:34

Incense_and_Peppermints

it is inevitable that we first look for a physical attratction when we initially meet someone. come on, we all do it, and we all want someone we are romantically interested in to be beautiful at first. we are, after all, visual creatures. that's why we all ask each other for picies.

but we are also very complex, and require many intagibles to fan the flames of our ardor and allow love to flourish. things too numerous to, well, enumerate...

sensitivity
compassion
kindness
intelligence
spiritual awareness
artistic sensibilities
self-awareness
a desire to truly understand you, and be understood
sweetness
thoughtfulness

there are some things that you can see also that aren't as obvious as a pretty face, like the way someone walks, or talks, or a light in the eyes, or being very clean and smelling nice, dressing nice, etc.

arrogance, meanness, control-freakishness, selfishness and phony-ness make people ugly, no matter how pretty they are on the outside.

Edited by - Incense_and_Peppermints on 29 July 2002 21:41:37

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