Ugliness - Blessing in Disguise?

Ugliness - a word which most of us would associate with something which we wouldn't like to look at or consider disgusting or just downright horrible-looking.

Ugliness is a quality possessed by physical things that are unappealing to the senses, especially visually. Basically the quality of something or someone or anything which is unpleasant to look at and where you'd be wishing you have something nicer and prettier to look at. You should get what I mean by now right?

And so by that, it would mean that generally people would not want to cast their eyes upon unpleasant-looking objects, including humans considered to be err.. ugly. Therefore, if an ugly person would not be looked at or given good, proper attention by other people, this means that the ugly person wouldn't have much contact with those who push them away. If those people who consider themselves to be too beautiful to mingle with those they consider their inferior in the beauty department, then, in other words, the ugly ones would be treated as the outcasts of the "Beautiful Society".

Okay then, you must be wondering.. "Why is there a possibility that ugliness, by the standards of the world, might be a blessing in disguise?"

Well here's my opinion, which may be horribly wrong and distorted. [There's a reason why my blog is called Rachelisation, you know]

One, if you're ugly and someone is trying to initiate a relationship with you, despite how you look like, that would be something out of the ordinary right? This would or might mean that the initiator who is trying to establish a friendship with the so-called ugly person, has been able to look beyond the mere outer appearance of the so-called ugly one OR the initiator is attracted to the non-physical qualities of the so-called ugly one.

Now, is it not a blessing to have people interested or liking us even though we're not the Most Beautiful or the Most Handsome or you're just downright Miss Plain Jane? Because this would mean that they are sincerely interested in forging a relationship with our soul, which has got no face or body! Apart from that, it would also mean that the so-called ugly person would have a likelier chance to be cherished forever. After all, whatever physical beauty or attractiveness (or lack thereof!) that a person has will eventually fade and be completely gone one fine day, leaving the person bare to his or her very own soul, which in my opinion, is the true self.

But it's not all as simple as that of course! Beauty and Ugliness is very subjective. It's a very natural thing and a basic human need to feel beautiful and desired. I mean who in the right mind would want to look ugly? Look all around us and see the obsession with perfection and beauty - that's a vivid picture of the situation itself! I once read a short story entitled "Beautiful" by Jeffrey Deaver in which an extremely beautiful model underwent plastic surgery to make herself look plain in other to shake off a maniacal stalker who's completely obsessed with her to the extent that she cannot live a normal life. That's how extreme people can get!

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So maybe in a way, being considered ugly by the "Beautiful People" may be a blessing, depending on the way you see it. In short, beauty is NOT skin deep; ugliness is skin deep. There's more beauty to uncover within a person than what you just see on the surface. Until then, we shall just wait for those wonderful people who will act as the Mirrors in our lives that will say to us, "You are the Fairest of them all."