Over here in UK, people come and compliment me and say what a good tan I have and complain that no matter how much they sun-bathe, they never manage to get a tan like the Indians. They either end up looking as red as a lobster or orange 😆
On a more serious note, i want to share something that really affected me sometime back. This was about 5-6 years back when I had gone to Italy for a Roman Holiday 😉 We did the usual sight-seeing and most of the stuff that tourists do. Then on the very last day of our stay, we went to a church. It looked a little different and dark from the rest of the churches in Rome. I was horrified when I entered the church to find that the entire place - the pillars, the walls, the cross, the roof, the grotto - every single thing in that church was made of skull and bones. I quickly made my exit.
As i left the church, i noticed something in Latin written over the door. I asked someone to translate it for me. It simply said - ONCE WE TOO WERE LIKE YOU!!! It was such a sobering thought. I cannot tell you how in that one instant I sort of grew up. It hit me that no matter how beautiful we may look, no matter how fair of skin we may be, one day, we all will just be skull and bones. It will just be our deeds that will be left behind 😊
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well said hansa. that realisation hits each of us sooner or later... i guess this is the sobering effect of growing up and older...
that is why i cannot include myself in any discussion on looks which includes the shape of eyes and nose... and not just colour of skin... which of us can help who we are born to.... what we look like....???
as you say.....all that i try to focus on is my words and actions... and that is difficult enough...