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Plastic surgery..!

Nearly a decade ago my wife and I had an unusual visitor. He was a dentist who had decided to become a film actor. Quite an impressive, good looking fellow with features that would no doubt have cinema goers soon swooning over him.

But there was something strange that he exuded. He gave out an air of total insecurity. The man for all his apollo looks and herculean muscles acted so unsure of himself that he spent the full evening trying to build himself up in our eyes, constantly seeking approval. He was the most pathetic hunk of good looks that I had ever met in my life.

After he had left, I rang up the friend who had sent this handsome dentist over. "What did you think of him?," asked my friend. "There's something about him that I couldn't figure out," I said. "For a chap with such good looks he has no confidence at all."

I heard my friend chuckling at the other end. "Plastic surgery," he muttered. "What?," I shouted. "He's had plastic surgery done," said my friend. "He was one of the most ugliest fellows before. Spent a fortune on a nose job, a lip job and a face job." "Good surgeon," I commented. "The best," said my friend. "But he failed miserably. The plastic surgeon couldn't do a mind job. His mind still thinks that he is as ugly as before."

I put the phone down and pondered awhile on the poor man, who had spent so much of his money to change the way he looked but could do nothing to change the way he thought of himself. A Roman nose, sexy lips and strong chin still housed a weak person.

The world still remembers the beautiful Marilyn Monroe. Beautiful but so vulnerable. Who allowed her body to be used by presidents and men in power so that she could feel accepted. What about Diana, the princess. Fragile and with a longing to be loved. Beautiful people, but who felt they were ugly inside.

My mind goes to another friend of mine. A good actor who had acted in quite a few plays I had directed. Plain looking fellow, short, thick glasses, stubby nose. But what confidence. He was like a tiger on stage and could move the audience better than the best looking stage personality.

He didn't need no plastic surgeon.

Do you?

Do you look at the mirror on the wall and wish that the image that stares back would have better bone structure, smoother skin, bigger eyes? Do you look at others in a room and curse yourself for not having their figure, their height or their looks?

For Gods sake don't waste your money on the doctors scalpel. Invest and invest heavily on the 'inside' you. Invest time on building character not on personality. On integrity, on goodness, on compassion and on love for your fellow human beings. Invest time on developing your self esteem.

That poor boy never made it to films, he went back to dentistry. But you, yes you my friend can, with the looks you have, make it to the top in whatever you want without the help of plastic surgery..!

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