Harlequin Princess
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the Tooth Fairy, or...(read inside)? I think most people don't really know what inner beauty actually means. People use it as a synonym for kindness, generosity, and good-heartedness, but I think it is something more vague and more profound...something that sometimes includes the stereotypical conception of it, but not necessarily. I think it doesn't have to do so much with being a "nice" person, but with a kind of gracefullness, not physically but on a larger scale, in the type of thing one says or does...whether a person's soul has poetry. A person can be a criminal, say a thief or even a murderer, but if you choose some events from their life and the type of thoughts they have, and align them in a certain way, you can find poetry there. So I think even within that category you will find people with this kind of beauty. (Think writing here - think of the way characters are portrayed in books and poems.) And would anyone deny that certain gestures have an intrinsic elegance? George LaKoff says "beauty" in this context is a metaphor, but I think it is more than that - it is real, and I wouldn't be surprised if some of the same neural circuits activate in responding to so-called "elegant" and "beautiful" mathematical theorems or philosophical proofs that activate when viewing a sunset. And if beauty is in the eye of the beholder, isn't this enough to make conceptual beauty...real? Call me crazy, but I still believe in inner beauty. And when I contemplate my own self, I know I have it...and yes, I know, this isn't something that can compensate in the dating world or anywhere else, but it doesn't need to compensate, because it exists on its own axis, and I am satisfied with it... Your thoughts?