The Beautiful People

“The Beautiful People”

 

by Ben Bussewitz

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When one applies a true vision of what is entailed in the beauty of one’s selfhood, that image is not sequestered or apart from the mode in which the individual strives to obtain and carries forth in ethical action.  Though, many might associate the beauty of an individual with a primary aesthetical way of constructing as such, without good and moral actions equipping one’s way of life down life’s paths, roads, rivers, and seas, there is not the affinity or draw to designate that person’s life as beautiful, and so on, what have you— enchanting, wonderfully great, outstanding in caliber and excellence…; to be a beautiful person, one must, in the way she lives life, act as a brilliantly good person in terms of moral consideration.

When we take into thought who we find to be beautiful, we do not look at a still-life portrait or photograph or statuette.  Otherwise, we associate all people with the lives they live and the lives we know them as.  In our hearts and minds, then, when we see an aesthetically-pleasing good looking person live a meaningfully and brilliantly good walk in life, with moral virtue, kindness, and overflowing love, then we see this person is somewhat with the ethical caliber to apply the label, “beautiful person.”  One is a beautiful person when one looks great and lives her life carrying forth good and beautiful actions.

Therefore, we see that people are not just still-life frames, but they are equipped with and associated besides the actions with which they carry their way through life.  When we see a person be kind, loving, and inviting in one’s speech or tone, then we see, this is a kind and good person, who is doing a beautiful action.  Additionally, we see one commit a good part of her life to serving the community, through community service or other lines of community helping responsibilities and roles, and we see this is the person’s beautiful action.

We see all people in the ways of their action (as, it is a truth, in all of life, one is always walking according to the actions in which she is embedded throughout), in the ways of action people do good and beautiful things or, on the contrary side, malicious and unbecoming things.  When one is living a good life and is pretty to the eyesight, then, her beautiful actions bespeak her beauty.  The more beautiful the life she leads, the more beautiful the person is, in truth, and verily.