My neighbor's introduction day. I went "asper" let me go and support my people.

The young couple live in the next flat. I see them everyday.

Got there, saw a well dressed lady and asked for the guy by name. It was after she spoke that I realised I was talking to my neighbor.
The make up made her unrecognisable.

I had never been so confused.

The next question in my mind was... What's the point?

Beauty is important because it's a physical advantage we pass through DNA.

If what you look like is not encoded in your DNA, what's the point of
looking like that?

Nobody benefits from that. Not even you.

Are you not scared when you look in the mirror and see someone else?

Beauty won't matter for that long especially if you're getting married. It doesn't matter how beautiful a thing is, after a while the people
who see it often stop seeing it.

When I first moved into my house in Ghana. It was a very beautiful house. After I had lived there for a year. It was just a house.

I am reminded of its beauty from time to time when outsiders turn it into a photoshoot spot.
It doesn't matter how intentional you are. Beauty fades when you see it everyday and for long.

So we can say, even in marriage, beauty won't matter for long.

It's the person in the body and how we feel towards them that's important.
Beauty is good for attraction. It's useless beyond that.

It's main other usefulness is the fact that through DNA, we can offer the offsprings an advantage.

My son is the most handsome child I had ever seen. Now, it takes a stranger to remind me when they gush all over him.
To me, what's important is that he's a good, strong boy. He's respectful, hardworking, has the right attitude towards life and not a weakling.

His handsomeness, I'll stop seeing. But I will always look out for those qualities.

I digress.

I think people should stop spending
so much energy on looking like who they are not.

I think character is more important than beauty.

Beauty fades and it's not even about age.

We love the ones we love because of who they are and how they make us feel not because they have a pretty face.

Which makes that
whole thing an exercise in futility.
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