What meets the eye is important. Like animals put their best suits on and sing their best songs and puff their chests to enchant their mates, we do it...to enchant everyone else, as well as the Narcissus that lives in us. We count that the halo effect will make people believe that we are beautiful and good and closer to perfection. Maybe we do believe that if we are beautiful we are good and closer to perfection. Maybe we think that the gold we wear can be introjected and make us better, or the Armani suit we bought is actually a means to be better in our own skin.
And then we read magazines and watch TV and movies and get enchanted with even more: the abundance in the world that never ever stops surprising us with new things to want. New things to add to the surface of our lives so we can make it prettier and shinier.
Beauty starts within. Sounds like a cheesy cliche, huh? Think about it.
C.
