How Important Is Your Beauty To Happiness In Our Society (females)?

Really it’s up for debate. As an ugly duckling I was teased maliciously for being unnactractive (specifically people would yell “Hey Beautiful!” and everyone would laugh) so I was unhappy all the time. After blooming, I was told all the time how beautiful I was. First – after all the teasing I found I did not trust or believe most people and that they were just continuing to tease me or embarass me, or if I DID believe them, I often found out later they were using compliments to get something from me of one sort or another. So I was miserable being unattractive, and now that I am supposedly attractive I don’t trust anyone when they comment on my looks. Why can’t they compliment my personality, or my intelligence? The only compliment that ever made me happy was someone who said I was as beautiful outside as I was inside. THAT made me happy. It said they looked inside first. Otherwise, beauty or lack of it is guaranteed to cause mistrust and misery. I’d rather be just plain and average. I’m not a raving beauty by any means, but enough things are said about me to make it seem I’m attractive, but in my heart I still don’t believe them. I was too ugly for too long to actually be as pretty as they say. It’s all illusion. So if you are just average – I envy you. I actually and honestly hate people talking about my looks. Regretfully, society seems to do that before ever looking at anything else, especially women.

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