Beautiful Loser

I've noticed that I'm naturally drawn to odd people. Or they to me. I'm not sure why, but give me odd anyday over normal.

Salma Hayak (of all people) once said "People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves."

Perfect is not pretty, it's surreal. What is beauty if only perfection were the measure. We'd would never find it.

In Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, Lord Henry suggests that the only thing worth pursuing in life is beauty, and the fulfilment of the senses. He's a shallow dude...Henry not Oscar. Yet, we all pursue beauty to some degree: physical beauty, emotional beauty, and well spiritual beauty. Because in our perception, beauty is perfection.

But truly beauty is most astounding in imperfection..it's how nature intended it. It's what makes us fall in love. I think I see odd as beautiful because each of us has inherent oddness. It's what makes us unique. When you can find and appreciate something unique in a person, the more beautiful they become.