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What if the world consisted primarily of people who looked like the images hovering around the sleeping person?
What if in that world, the person asleep was the one who people looked upon with repulsion and the others as models and movie stars? We say someone is "ugly" or "homely" because we are comparing them to an image we have of beauty in our minds. Who taught us what is to be considered ugly or beautiful? Who perpetuates that bias? We, who look in the mirror and say, "crap, this is a bad hair day" or "why did I have to get a blazing red pimple on my nose?" Look around us and see how the concept of "beauty" is connected to the marketplace. Advertising points out how those unsightly age spots, embarrassing dandruff, puffy eyelids, small breasts, big nose, dull hair, bloodshot eyes, overgrown eyebrows, chipped fingernails, bad breath, crooked teeth, and countless other things that detract from our beauty can be remedied by spending a little money here and a lot of money there. My concept of beauty is that of a verb. I don't see beauty as a state of being, but rather actively being beautiful in our most humane moments, when we are there to listen to, support, encourage, and appreciate each other. Beauty isn't in the eye of the beholder, it's in the beholder's heart.