Who Are The Ugly Persons?
This’ll be ugly. But whereto, without polemics?
A horse walks into a bar, bartender says, “Why the long face?”
But horses are pretty. They are anatomically prowessed caballuses, it’s why they are so often painted.
Fortunately, there is a secret to being ugly. Just the same is there a secret to being beautiful. It is far simpler than anyone dares to imagine.
I knew a girl who was an interesting example of Roald’s Dahl’s observation, which I’ll present down below. She was generously beaming, her eyes never did not shine with joy, her cheekbones and nostrils did ballet against gravity. But she had something that seems in retrospect… ill will? A muzzle that was slightly pursy with unplanned water and adiposity.
All told, she was beautiful. To this day, if you ask me to humor you, I’ll say what brought her looks down was not, as expected, the Moe Szyslaky mouth spiel. No — what brought her looks down were her righteous thoughts. Because she thought she was in the moral right so often, her face did a thing, and that thing unbosomed the objectionable creases in her pout.
Said Roald Dahl:
“If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it.”
In this day and age we are really attempting to exculpate the human veneer. Obese people are increasingly fronted in them billboards. Ladies militarize their oedemic waistlines (caused by polyunsaturated fatty acids and starches mostly), fat dogs are considered people too. In the slow wash of Hollywood’s end, perfectly symmetrical faces of men and women are subverted with crackhead visages and the so-called every-day joes and janes. It’s not their fault, after all, that they are ugly. It’s not like they can do anything about it, can they?
They sure try. Botox, dyes, surgeries, make-up. Guys are expressedly milled through theories on how to succeed in the gymnasiums. Ironically, putting on muscle often makes a man more beautiful. And it isn’t the bulk of jawline or the handier appearance. Not only. It’s the passion and dignation, beaming forth as human purpose. Essentially, it is good thought.
If you think you are ugly and there isn’t anything you can do about it, think again. Think better, softer, broader, nicer. Be more forgiving.
Don’t worry, I too am ugly at times. On some days in the past I was so ugly people wouldn’t trust me to smell things. Just don’t worry. This too will make you ugly.
Contrary to popular belief, the default state of a human face, when relaxed, is not droopy, or slack or neutral, or drunk with sleep. It is a smile. To the long faces out there, a smile can seem an exertion. But with sufficient letting go, the face truly does crack up, Buddha-style. It must be experienced or else it is thought (there we go again, with the thinking), rather impossible.
This is not to poke fun at ugly people, or to say, “blame yourselves.” Well, a little. But more than this it is an earnest shot at inspiring agency. A smile is always pretty no matter who it’s on. Entitled people might mouth, “but what if I don’t feel like fucking smiling?”
No biggie. If you don’t feel like smiling, I suggest you just relax. Give yourself time. Forgive time. And soon you will be smiling. Like an enthused dog, you will know nothing else. Like a wound hound, a wagged tail will reverse engineer you with joy.
If you’re lucky, you might even change the very bone structure of the old mask. Throw in some serious doses of vitamin K2 (which our civilization is deficient in anyway), some jaw relaxation, and you will be libido on a stick to a square root of neighbors in no time. Just don’t expect this. Expectations can be very ugly thoughts too.
So stop it. No more, “I’ll show them!”, basta with the , “I am not good enough.” You would never say so to a friend.
And who are you to yourself?
Dahl:
“A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts it will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”
Love to all.
