How important is visual appeal?

It is believed that all doors are open to beautiful people - it is much easier for them to find a decent job, make many friends, find a soul mate. However, it is often impossible to tie a person to oneself with external attractiveness, because a rich inner one usually has a more powerful attractive effect than a pretty face. But why then do people get hung up on appearance and try to form their environment from pretty personalities, and when they get to know a beautiful, but empty person, they are disappointed in him and lose interest in this person?

Beauty is a multifaceted concept that includes physical attractiveness, spiritual maturity, intellectual level, aesthetic assessment of everyday life, psychological harmony of the individual. Certainly, our perception of beauty is influenced by historical time, fashion, moral and aesthetic trends of the time. After all, it is not for nothing that in every era there were their own standards of beauty. But, despite this, everyone strives to be beautiful.

Why do we need this? There is an opinion that beautiful people are happier, more confident, more sociable. And, of course, we want to be like that. We want to be successful with the opposite sex (after all, the biological role of external attractiveness is the continuation of a healthy family), we want to be socially successful because an outwardly pleasant person, backed up by knowledge, is more likely to be hired), we want to have more friends (after all, communicating with beautiful people, we become and prettier themselves). And in the desire to possess this, many adjust themselves to the dictated framework of modern beauty, and basically this is just an external aspect. But here's the paradox! Often, beautiful women, on the contrary, push men away from themselves (after all, men are afraid of being rejected) and remain single for a long time. Beautiful people are hired but they require much more from them than from a person with a "normal" appearance. Often fat women are taken as wives, and slender blondes are left as mistresses. After all, healthy offspring need strong hips, a developed chest and the ability to sacrifice oneself.

So why doesn't external beauty always bring us relief and happiness in life?

But because beauty begins with oneself. If a person accepts himself, understands his needs and feelings, he becomes self-confident, knowing what he really wants, tension and anxiety disappear. It is easier for such a person to communicate with others, it is easier to build relationships. When your soul feels good, when you are in harmony with yourself, then any external flaws are not noticeable at all, but only the inner radiance is visible, which attracts others so much and which you so want to possess.