Contrast between Brain and Beauty

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    It is better to have brain than beauty. While physical beauty is purely visual, the beauty of brain is all encompassing. It is, therefore, a known fact that beauty is only skin dee. Most beautiful people are just superficial; beneath there exterior countenance lie nefarious qualities of jealousy, wickedness, pride and arrogance. What is worse is that physical beauty is not even lasting for it declines with age and time. Thus what is at its peak in youth withers out with age? It goes beyond recognition in old age. Contrary to this, our brain and mantel faculty improve and grow with age. We become wiser, more experienced and people look up to us for advice and direction. Another important aspect of the brain is that it is all pervasive. It spreads its influence over us in all that we do or say. This is in sharp contrast to beauty that it by its glamour, can only dazzle us but for a moment. No sooner it is out of sight that its impact is gone forever. Some beauty also lives in vain, unnoticed and unsung, in the worlds of Thomas Gray, “For many a flower is born to blush unseen. And waste its freshness on the desert air.” A noble mind on the other hand, brings out beauty within. While beauty can enthrall us for the present, the brain with its inspiration can arch out and influence the lives of countless people profoundly, This is exemplified in the life and travails of Florence Nightingale. She could also have lived a normal life like other girls of her age, but she chose to reach out the injured and suffering people.

    The impact of our brain on our personality is nothing but an acknowledge fact. This is the reason why even at national and international beauty pageants, an effort is made to gauge the intelligence of the participants.

    Summary: Brain is everlasting but beauty is transitory. Brain grows keeping pace with time but beauty gets pale gradually with time. Brain makes us wiser, more experienced and people look up to us for advice and direction. Besides, it is pervasive but beauty is nothing to it. Unlike beauty, brain helps us to develop, inspires us to do noble things, makes us happy as well as spreads happiness.         

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