That’s Not How Beauty Works: Your Beauty Is Not Only in the Eyes of the Beholder
The difference between logic and passion embodies the same untouchable humanity as wisdom.
Do you know the feeling of being a sports icon in your hometown?
I had strange encounters with other students making up coincidental conversation topics, just so they could tell people at school we were friends. Basically, against my will, I was an athletic icon.
I hated to be a public figure in my community, so much so that I took refuge in books.
In the summer, I played beach volleyball in the national championship. The rivalry between the surfers and us to win over the most beautiful girls was highly competitive.
I never understood why I was so neglected by most of the summer muses I fell in love with until my best friend pointed at my right hand and told me:
How can girls date a guy that brings a philosophy book everywhere he goes?
I looked down at the copy of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave in my hand. I thought I’d be ingenious- that it was somehow exotic for a girl to see a young man with the body of the statue of David and the brain of a philosopher from ancient Greece.
