Intelligence Vs Beauty

I was sitting in the café today and wondering the differences in beauty perceptions between people that I noticed the differences between south and north Indian girls. According to the conventional sense of beauty, north Indian girls are way more hot than south Indian ones, statistically. The moment I thought this, I was hit by this amazing revelation about how our society sees beauty as a concept. It’s a concept that everyone understands, its universal, everyone likes it, respects it, secretly or openly admire it, though still society has a certain hesitation in admitting it.

Why? Sometimes I wonder. It is a really powerful sense that drives our life. Everyone wants to look beautiful. And it’s okay. There is nothing wrong in that. Some people are genetically gifted with natural beauty. But now I see a difference here. If some kid is born with a genetic gift of music, art, literature or mathematical ability, we call them a prodigy. But we don’t call a naturally beautiful kid a prodigy, why? How is a genetic gift of intelligence any different from a genetic gift of beauty? Both were not the result of the kid’s efforts or hard work. Both should be treated equally. I know that people don’t like to treat beauty with same respect as intelligence because they feel that beauty is something that fades with time. But doesn’t that make it more valuable.

Kids are always taught to love someone without going for the looks or beauty. Even though it’s a fact that it is never followed, why do they tell them that. Nobody ever tells a kid to not to consider intelligence when trying to choose a partner. Most parents might actually want their kids to choose the most intelligent ones. Isn’t that a double standard against beautiful people. Why does intelligence get a higher status than beauty if both were obtained from the same genetic lottery?

The people who are born beautiful also face a lot of insecurities. They have a gift that they know will deteriorate over time and they have to make the most out of it within the time they got. Imagine a brilliant person suddenly losing his memory and cognitive functions, imagine a musician losing their voice. Only if you analyze the situation, you will understand the horror completely.

Another is the problem of always doubting whether people are attracted to them because they are pretty or because they have other abilities. They are taught that it is a bad thing if they are just appreciated for their beauty. They are always taught beauty alone is insufficient. Nobody teaches something like that to intelligent people.

All the people I am talking about are people who are born with these gifts, this article is not about those who acquired these abilities with time and effort. Also, when I mean beauty, I mean physical beauty. People keep saying beauty is subjective and all those crap, but I mean conventional beauty, not the internal beauty people keep talking about.

It’s time we give some credit to beauty and people who are born with it.