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Blogs by Bo Drury
Being Beautiful
11/5/2011 9:17:15 AM
Secret thoughts of a woman.
Haven't most of us wished at one time or another that we were beautiful? As a child I watched my mother and thought how beautiful she was and wished to be just like her. Then as I grew older I watched the stars on the movie screen and thought how perfect life would be if I could look like them with flowing hair, long lashes, and painted faces. My aunt was a petite redhead with straight white teeth and a perfect figure, why couldn't I look like her, I wondered! But instead I was tall and lanky, had dishwater blonde hair and wore braces. My grandmother kept telling me to pull in my stomach and worried about how big my feet were going to be! Because I was tall I started to slouch. Thanks to my third grade teacher who happened to be a six foot amazon woman, I changed my attitude about being tall. One day she pulled me aside as the class was leaving the room and told me that all the Miss Americas were tall and beautiful. She told me to stand tall and hold my head up and walk proud. I worshiped her, as most kids do their teachers, and believed in her, whatever she said was bound to be the truth! I never slouched again, in fact I always thought I was taller than anyone and I stopped growing at 5 ft 5 1/2 inches. Children take to heart what adults say and my grandmother gave me an inferiority complex that I carried with me always. My features were not those of a beautiful child. I was not ugly, but neither was I pretty. My nose was too big and my teeth were crooked and when I smiled it was more to one side of my face. My advantage was, as I grew, I had a great figure, nice eyes, pretty hair, and a good personality. But I was always consious of what I considered my 'faults'! Once when my boys were young and we had made a visit to the doctors office for their checkup, out of the blue the doctor asked me if I had ever considered having my nose reshaped. I was quite taken back, and told him no! He said he thought I should and gave me the name of a plastic surgeon. When I told my folks, needless to say they were very upset. Now I know he meant no harm, in fact I am certain he really liked me and thought he was helping me. I told him I figured God gave me that nose for a reason! But I thought a lot about following his advice. Happily my children all had handsome noses and perfect teeth and my 'faults' didn't stop me from having a handsome husband. And I survived the years, but now I will say if one of my children had a feature that made them uncomfortable I would pay for them to have it corrected, for it is sad growing up and being less than beautiful in your own mind. But beauty comes in many forms, a person can be beautiful because of the way they are and act. One of my grandmothers always said beauty was only skin deep and this is true, it is what comes from the heart that makes a person beautiful, just like having money does not make you rich in God's eyes. I have friends who have had the wrinkles removed and when they did they removed the personality of their face. I figure these wrinkles are the happy lines showing the joy I have experienced in my life. I like the idea that someone can look at me and say, That ole woman looks pretty good to be as old as she is! And my little grandchildren tell me,"Grandma if you didn't have all those wrinkles, you would look just like a kid!" So now I can look at the beautiful people of stage and screen, hear the tragic tales of their life and know their beauty did not bring them happiness as I supposed it would when I was young. I am ever more grateful for my life and who I am, and know that to some I was beautiful.
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