Beauty is weird.

Beauty is associated with value. If you’re not beautiful, you’re not considered as valuable. On the flip side, if you are beautiful, you can’t openly say that or you’re conceited. So you have to try your hardest to be beautiful, all the while pretending you haven’t noticed.

It doesn’t make a whole lot of sense.

People will go to insane lengths to feel beautiful. They’ll spend thousands of dollars. They’ll literally have someone cut into them in an operating room to change how they look. They’ll buy all the most expensive creams and clothes. Just to feel like others find them beautiful.

Ultimately, beauty is just wrapping paper. Gifts are given in beautiful packages. But when you get the gift, all you really want to know is what’s inside. The same goes with a person.

Have you ever met someone you thought was gorgeous, but as you talked to them and got to know them they seemed less attractive? Or the opposite can be true too. Sometimes you meet someone you don’t find that attractive, and as you get to know them they become more attractive to you.

Beauty is the shiny wrapping paper. But the gift is what’s inside. Otherwise, it’s just an empty container.