Bold and Beautiful

Bold & Beautiful

      She was thin, frail, unattractive, she thought. Her physical appearance made a great difference to her. She was always conscious of her looks. She spent hours in thinking, how unpresentable and unattractive she was.

      At that time the phone on her desk rang. She picked up the receiver and talked to her client in effortless, fluent English. Her short, shrude discussion impressed the client and the deal was confirmed. She put down the phone and felt very happy about it and she read the nameplate on her table.

                                                       Miss Neha Singh.

                          Factory Administrative In charge and Personal Secretary.

She was the personal secretary to a Boss who was always unavailable to his clients and at the time of making important decisions.  She had taken over all the responsibilities in her firm.

     Neha met her old school friend, Sheila, on her way home. Oh! What a beauty she thought. Sheila was as always well groomed, stunningly beautiful and attractive. They exchanged pleasantries as meeting after a long time. Sheila suggested Neha to go for a makeover as she was working in a big firm and had a very good job. Initially Neha resisted but after meeting Sheila several times and Sheila’s continuous coaxing made Neha agree to do so. They both went to a Health and Beauty centre. She had a complete makeover and looked surprisingly different. Her old image of a frail, unattractive girl had changed. She felt better and thanked her friend for all her help and guidance.

     The next week she entered her office more confident and poised. Her complexes had disappeared and she felt great. In the evening while returning home, she met Sheila on the way as beautiful as ever. Neha stood by her and asked her the reason for standing at the bus stand everyday and not taking any bus. Sheila hesitated to answer her. But her insistence compelled Sheila to tell her the truth.

Almost in tears, Sheila said that she was a professional highly paid prostitute. She had no qualification and brains to earn and become a secretary or any other professional like Neha was. Her physical beauty was her only asset.

      The earth moved away from under Neha’s feet.

She thought, “How shallow my thinking is? How could she ever think herself to be useless, unattractive when God had given her such a beautiful heart and brain?  The most essential things to make a life that is so beautiful.”

She realized then that only external beauty can be disadvantageous for living a successful life. But brains with or without beauty can always be advantageous.

She realized that beauty or no beauty, ‘Jassi jaisi Koi Nahin’, because every individual, every Jassi and Jessica are unique in their own way.

      Thanks to the individuality each one has. Let’s celebrate our uniqueness and our individuality, and not regret being Bold and Beautiful with a VOID within.