Beauty, is it a blessing or a curse?

I think for women, and even men... Beauty is not a curse it is a blessing, nor shall the lack of it be a curse. Everyone has beauty inside them and it will spring out or everyone once a person live up to it. Back to the topic, I believe that one being beautiful outside is never intended to be a curse.. it is given to one for a greater purpose, to be an inspiration, to be a hope... one must use what god gave them for the best of all not to use it for their own benefit alone.

I don't know anything about beauty. It is because I don't think that people are beautiful and ugly. I never separate them like that. I think there are people who are charming and people who doesn't know how to express their good sides. Now I just don't know if the beauty is a curse or not. I see around me all the time girls who look very well, of course only few of them are having natural beauty, most of them try to express their outlook with fashion clothes, hairstyles, make up .... They seem proud of themselves while they are just shiny boxes.

I am a guy and this may sound strange and shallow but I would love to be beauty, beauty for me is self-esteem, confidence, getting what you want in life, not being ignored or rejected. I would love the chance to have good looks. People say beauty is only skin deep but for me that isn't true. People judge you by the way you look if you are not good looking you don't get the same opportunities that beautiful people get in life, you are cast aside. You get bullied as well for being unattractive and that hurts. If I had a choice beauty would win every time.

I am glad we are not related! That is a blessing

I think it is what you make of it. Like with most things in life, it really depends on your attitude towards it. So if you make it a burden for yourself, it will be, if you decide that it is something good, it will be that as well. But I do think that it is not always as wonderful as most people would think to be incredibly beautiful. So that way, I am sure she has a point.

I think people who are physically beautiful but with low self-esteem would think it is a curse because they wouldn't know how to handle situations. Because they have the perception that beauty is all that matters and it is all that is important and the only reason they are loved. But for some who are beautiful but perceives themselves as more than just a beautiful face, wouldn't think it as a curse. Because they would not measure their self-worth for being beautiful but by being more than that.

It's both. People judge each other based on beauty and this is what causes jealousy and abuse, even though you wouldn't think so. Another thing I've learned is that people think your life is easy if you're attractive, they believe you get things handed to you and everyone likes you. Not always true either. For women, I see a lot more jealousy and competition and 'dislike' if other people think you're attractive, at least from other women. Lots of drama. Not sure if it's the same for men, maybe but not to the same degree, men rib and tease each other, they don't go around trying to undermine or ruin their friends because they feel 'less than'. It is not fun to be wolf whistled at by 'kids' young enough to be your own kids, and some people are VERY forward. There are also those who blame beautiful people for their own failures - if it wasn't for that person, I would be noticed, blah blah. I guess it's how you handle it too.

That is terrible.. But not every case is this bad. As I think, beauty helps in many ways..like u go out to buy something, u get instant attention. You go for interviews, it aint gonna be as tough for ur application to move when compared to a few others. You can do good to the society more easily as people would be dying to impress you. But, there are people around who feel jealous and try to malign a beautiful person, because they cant get that much attention from others. This can hurt the beautiful one. She might even react which will be blown out of proportions. Another problem is beauty is not permanent. This means, beautiful people are more aware of the wrinkles and blemishes than others. They also worry more about such things, and get depressed when there is competition. On some rare ocassions, they become nasty also. So net net, being beautiful is neither a blessing nor a curse. It is the attitude and circumstances that make it a blessing or a curse.

beauty is always a blessing, be it in the inside or outside. it seems like this girl's family and environment are the ones that are cursed. thinking about it makes me sick. poor girl, if only she had a choice of refusing and had someone she can go to to prevent all the abuse she had experienced i hope she is in good hands now and that she can get over all the bad experiences she had. this is so sad

I don't think beauty is a curse. If the beauty we have is something that got people envious of us or tempted men to abuse us, then I think we need to be very protective of ourselves. We have to fight if we need to, do something about it if even our own parents cannot take care of us - we must know what to do and not just let people ruin our life. There shouldn't be any regrets as beauty is a blessing given to us.

I think she has a pretty face but most of all I think she is a nice person...You just don't hear her name always in the news in a negative way...On this picture she looks extremely frail...they say beauty is in the eye of the beholder..

Sad that she didn't stand up for her rights, or ask for protection. Saying NO to all what she went through would have helped her. Beauty has its place at the right time for everything. Beauty can be vain too.

Beauty is a boon.It's a blessing from God,but it's certainly vulnerable to abuse by people who had evil intentions.But that doesn't turn beauty into a curse.Such people tend to attack even a lady who is not beautiful.I would rather like to say that it is the evil intentions of people that deserves to be called curse,not beauty.All beautiful things animate or inanimate are blessings.

beauty is undoubtedly a blessing if not miss used.

I would say for the most part beauty would be considered a blessing. There might be some negatives to it, such as people not looking beyond the beauty to see your personality but I think this is a rare occurance. Sadly, it's been proven that in a job interview, the better looking one has a better chance of being hired. Confidence does wonders to make you beautiful though, I think it shines through more than anything else.

Beauty has to be a blessing and never a curse! and beauty deserve respect not just for the outsider but for the one that is beautiful.. self respect is among been beautiful as well...a beautiful face that not mean you have to comply with abuse of any kind! people who abuse a nice looking person will abuse any body despite how they look like. I don't understand why a mother would let her husband touch this girl" because she is so beautiful" so he won't go and look for another girl?...to me in this case beauty has nothing to do with it...but abuse and convenience does.

No nothing is curse in our life but if our attitude is changed to see that then everything is curse otherwise everything is God gift beauty or dirty. You are right boy attract on beauty girl but it is the blessing of God.

Oh, poor that girl. That situation won't happen in here...and for sure beauty is a blessing...

Everything will have a good side and bad side,so was beauty,I really can understand the encounter of that girl,if a beauty girl born in a power and wealth family,then may be her life will be amazing,but if a beauty girl born in a poor family,then she will face a lot of harassment cause there are not so much power to stop those harassment,so may be this is the misery of that girl you mentioned,but as a beauty girl she will have plenty of chance to change her life,there are many brilliant boy fall in love to her but this need some fortune,wish her good luck.

In my opinion, it is not her beauty that got her in trouble, but the kind of parents she got. She should be protected right at her very own home, but those people who should love her, protect her and care for her didn't do their job as parents. What kind of mother would actually put her needs first before that of her own child? There are also girls who got abused even though they are not that "beautiful" because of the same issue. I believe that our beauty, talents and traits are all gifts from God. The people who use this for their own advantage, benefit or to put down others are the very ones who make these gifts either as a blessing or a curse.