One day, beauty and ugliness met on a beach.“Let’s swim in the sea together,” they decided. So they took off their robes and swam out.
When the beauty was careless for a moment, the ugliness slipped away. Once on the shore, she secretly put on Beauty’s robe and disappeared.
When the beauty arrived on the shore and realized this, she had no choice but to put on the garment of ugliness, as she was too shy to remain undressed.
From that day on, people confused the two.
However, there are people who see the face of beauty and ignore its garment. And, there are people who recognize ugliness and are not deceived by their garments.
We often allow ourselves to be deceived and influenced by outward appearances, people, events or situations. We then fail to recognize people’s true intentions or the actual opportunities that events or situations offer us…
