What is beautiful?

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Body and Mind

It is a ‘normal thing’ for people to recognize and adore beautiful people. Individuals, who are attractive and beautiful generally grab crowd’s attention, gets favoritism and treated better. How long this external beauty lost? – Until a certain age or perhaps when people start realizing that beauty of the individual that they are admiring is only external. Does external beauty really matters? The answer is yes and no -both. External beauty matters when a person has an equally beautiful mind! If the body is beautiful and soul is unattractive because of the behaviors and attitudes of the person then, the external beauty has no significance.

What does it mean to have a beautiful mind?

Beauty is not just having a pretty face; it is also about beautiful mind, heart and a kind soul. The external beauty has something to represent to the outside world – with perfect body, with perfect make up, dazzling clothing apparels, shoes, bags and with sparkles jewelries. These things are temporary and do not lost long. The definition of inner beauty is what we should consider. An eternal beauty always lasts forever. A person who is good deep inside the skin is beautiful irrespective of how they appear outside. The pleasant personality and good attitude of a person that spreads joy and happiness attracts people.

So what makes a person really attractive and beautiful? Whether one is physically attractive or not, a person is beautiful when they have some of these following qualities:

Good and pleasant attitude
One can who listens and exchange ideas with others
In an argument agree to disagree with respect
A person who is instead of imposing the decision, is willing to listen to other options
Rather than just black or white, one who can see the shades of gray
One who does not gossip, instead initiates the talk that will be informative and educative
A person who disagree with a generalization, but agree with some parts of it
Not trying to show off degrees, money, qualifications, status
Not taking difference of opinion personally – understanding the opinion and respecting views of other person
Being humble and respectful
Respecting and helping lesser fortunate people
Being helpful to physically disabled or who needs special attention
Not being judgmental all the time
Tailoring the language based on the audience knowledge and giving information to audiences accordingly – the one who knows how to and when to talk
Understanding someone’s weakness, gray areas, values, views, perception and not making fun of them
Inspiring, encouraging and motivating others to come up in life
Not holding grudge on someone for some reasons and let things go (with realization of it is not weakness to forgive someone)
Not trying to overtake conversations and listens to other views
And, anyone who takes time to be kind to others (is beautiful)
The one who makes others world beautiful
You are yourself around others and do not have a second image
A person who does not care for limelight
Independent and open minded
Being optimistic and smile often