“Beauty is only skin deep”
The actual quote is from a proverb
Proverb. First found in a work by Sir Thomas Overbury’s, 1613:
“All the carnall beauty of my wife, Is but skin deep.”
“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder”
Benjamin Franklin, in Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1741, wrote:
Beauty, like supreme dominion
Is but supported by opinion
beauty is in the eye of the beholderDavid Hume’s Essays, Moral and Political, 1742, include:
“Beauty in things exists merely in the mind which contemplates them.”
And for me it is:
“Beauty is everything”
All of these idioms run rampant throughout our language and it is no wonder I feel guilty when I want to be attracted to someone or something. Though it may be a completely subjective experience the thing that attracts me to something or someone is usually not the thing that keeps me connected to it. Though it is a piece it (that thing) is the catalyst which allows a process to unfold and is nothing less than beautiful.
Most of the time I’m unwilling to allow it to begin, but that is just because I believe that there is no one who deserves me. I’m a gift and I haven’t found the person to which to give the present.
Wow. I never quite said it like that…I think that is a good part of my problem. Maybe now I can do something about it…nah…its about trust and it is up to me not anyone else.
Just for today I accept the fact that I may be alone for as long as I live. Maybe I can get a cloak and a cool book with words in it too! Ohhh fancy….