The beauty myth
Tin has a thing for good looking gals. I thought it was just him but then I read that children show a definite preference for beautiful faces. Yesterday, when my niece walked in the room with us to wake him up from his nap, he instantly put his game face on – the serious one, when he is put in an unfamiliar situation. But then he started becoming the little charmer, the flirt, as soon as he got a good look at his cousin’s face.
Children know surface beauty intuitively, but the broader picture takes skills that only age will develop.
As we grow old … the beauty steals inward.
Ralph Waldo Emerson