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Position:Home>Philosophy> Is beauty a gift or a curse?Question: Is beauty a gift or a curse!? My best friend is gorgeous!. She is undoubtedly the most beautiful, sexy girl at my school!.
Beauty can be interpreted as a gift, and it can also be interpreted as a curse!. I think it's a curse!. The only reason people want to be friends with my best friend is because of her beauty!. No one cares about HER!. I'm her only REAL friend!. What do you think!?Www@QuestionHome@Com Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I believe it to be a curse!. Me being ugly, I've seen the benefits of it!. Of course, its all in how you see it!. I'm sure there are some people who would give their soul to be beautiful!. I've accepted my unattractiveness!. And in accepting it, I've realized something about life that others still haven't!. Beauty isn't everything!. Beauty is not what people are remembered by!. What is beauty to an 80 year old woman!? If you place your hopes and dreams in beauty, you will end up in despair!. Think of the celebrities nowadays!. Plastic surgery, nip and tucks, all in the name of beauty!. But we cannot deny age!. We cannot deny fraility!. And besides, what human could ever describe true beauty!? I do not look for beauty on the face of others!.!.!.I seek it in their soul!. The only true beauty I see is the beauty that nature has provided!. So in my opinion, yes--beauty is a curse!. It's misleading!.!.!.a curse in disguise!. How often do you see a plump ugly woman being stalked!? Hardly, if ever!. Most murder cases are of woman, and I can assure you that over half of them were beautiful (of course, hideousness cannot save one from murder)!. And as you have exampled, your friend would find it hard to find a true friend, and in having you, she is lucky!. Most women of her stature are not even given a second chance with men, there is only one thing they want from her!. Whereas myself, my ugliness may prevent me from finding "love", but it cannot stop me from having true friendships with men!. One of my best friends is male!. And most beautiful women would find that hard to find!. Ugliness has its downfalls, the criticism, the humiliation, the hopelessness of being unable to change!. But that is reality!. And living in false hopes is no miracle, but a curse!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Unfortunately, beauty is an ephemeral blessing that people will base their lives on, even after it fades!. If your friend is strong and beautiful on the inside, she will have many REAL friends!. Will you be her friend if she gets disfigured and loses popularity!? Will they!? If your REALLY her true friend, then look out for her and don't worry about the others!. They will prove or disprove themselves in the long run, as will you!.Www@QuestionHome@Com I think its what you make it!. But regardless of the small pitfalls, beauty makes life easier in the long run!. Sad but very true!. If she doesnt appreciate it now, she will when she's older!. But I doubt if she wishes she was ugly!. Actually you sound kind of jealous and/or bitter towards your friend!. How bitter of you to declare yourself her one and only friend!.Www@QuestionHome@Com It's not what you are, but what you do with what you are!. She should use her power of beauty for good and not evil!. Look at George Clooney!Www@QuestionHome@Com Everyone has to write or, or, or, or when obviously it is both!. People are jerks because of the beauty thing!.Www@QuestionHome@Com It's been such a curse to me for years, finally I got older and ugly, and it's not such a problem anymore!. lolWww@QuestionHome@Com |