TRUE Beauty - Another Anecdote

When I was 19, working in a chemist shop a young woman came in one Saturday morning. She was looking for shampoo, and she came to ask for my advice.

She had *severe* cerebral palsy, but we got chatting and we sorted out some shampoo for her. I bid her farewell and thought that was that.

She came in many Saturdays to follow, sometimes just to talk to me about all sorts of things under the sun...We laughed when I couldn't quite get what she said, or when her body went off into spasms for a few moments and she lost her train of thought,but always, we'd find our way through to the conversation again...

Then, one morning, she came in with a friend...and she waited until I was free. She introduced me to John, her fiancee...and she told John that she loved to come in and talk with me as I was one of the few people who spoke to her as if she was normal.

John shook my hand and smiled...

Then, she told me John was blind....

And I smiled....

For here was a man who would never judge this young woman by her face filled with, to some, off-putting, uncontrollable ticks and grimaces, nor be ashamed to be with her, ever, for John saw only her Soul...

And he knew that Her Soul was one of the Most Extraordinary Beauty...

The man who owned the chemist shop told me, after that day when John came in, that he no longer wanted this young woman to come in to the shop, as he felt she was 'putting the customers off'....I just looked at him, stared hard...said not a word and walked away. I left, shortly after...for no way would I ever work for a man who could say such a thing...



It must be hard to be a beautiful woman to know that some men judge you on the Outer Surface of your Being, never seeing beyond, to the Person Who Lies Within.....

Likewise, it must be hard to be a plain woman to know that some men judge you on the Outer Surface of your Being, never seeing beyond, to the Person Who Lies Within...........

We are all Souls, at the end of the day..and what lies on top is of little consequence.

It is What Lies Within which matters...
Nothing Else....