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Author: Oyadeyi Adekunle Emmanuel
Posted to the web: 8/23/2010 12:28:44 PM

Beauty and Personality

If there is anything Iappreciate about poetry, it is not the rhyming scheme, the rhythmic patterns, neitheris it the unified verse nor the run on lines but the poetic license of the poetto use words arbitrarily even when such words are grammatically unacceptableand unappealing to the hearing.    It doesn’t sound strange when one of the oldadages refer to the word ‘beauty’ as “skin deep”. This is one word I havelearnt for years, even when I was still stuttering, and when I use it, it isoften used in the wrong context.

Calmness of the mind,wisdom, sweet-tempered life, a tranquil-heart, self-control, controlledpassion, and thoughtful deeds often rings a bell and each time I think of thesevirtues I think of personality and try to underscore the correlation betweenbeauty and personality. However, as much as I eschew dangling on the plain ofconfusion but resorts to permutation, then it occur to me that personality is awonderful thing that makes a man, it is not only an organized set of uniquetraits and complex characteristics that makes a person wholly different fromall other persons in the world, it makes you special and brings out the realyou.

More uniquely,personality makes you blessedly reliable and dependably good while beauty makesyou to be adorably treasured. More specially, beauty makes you to be uniquelyloved and cared for. Personality is the mirror that reveals beauty.

Personality and beautyhave always played relatively unique role, especially in the protection ofintegrity and dignity. While most people rather repress and intimidate otherswith their personality consciously, some exudes personality with carefullycalculated steps and excellent vigour as a king exudes royalty. In the samerespect, while some people guard and protect their personality jealously in thestream of their consciousness, others usually with sheer stupidity, selfglorifying tendencies and catalogues of socially unacceptable, traditionallywronged and culturally condemned behaviours trades their persons for reproach,contempt, covetousness of all sort, assorted insults and rains of derogatorywords and statement from young and old, male and female who carelessly vomitanything speakable as an old man disgorged blocked mucus.

Just as my grandpa wholies in the field where glory does not stay would always tell me “my son… we’rehumble but our personality brings us honour”, this has been my watchword whichI never allow to depart from me.

 Some personalities are gifts of peace and tranquility,some are selfless, some are kind; as such, ripples of kindness that brings aboutwind of change flows out of them because each life they touch touches others inthe same circle, while some are embodiment of dedication. Unfortunately, to fewor most as I may want to put it, you can not find in them an iota of all thesevirtues… anyway…