People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.
Salma Hayek
I watched the movie "Shallow Hal" as a kid, and the message of that movie was not lost on me. In the movie, the main character has a trance put on him so that he sees a person's inner beauty reflected as their outer beauty. Towards the end the trance is removed but because he has seen the inner beauty of the people he has come to know he understands what it means to really appreciate someone's true beauty.
We have all had experiences where the beauty of a person increases or decreases as we get to know who they really are. There have been some people I initially thought very attractive that as I got to know them they became less beautiful...almost physically too...which taught me that there is much more to how we determine beauty.
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