GROWING BEAUTIFULLY!

“Growth is the only evidence of life.” — John Henry Newman

There was a girl named Mary Ann Evans. She used to love writing and was a famous poet and novelist. Despite her beautiful writings, people used to call her ugly for her looks. For these people, what mattered was her looks (which was not appealing to the ugly minded people)and not the beauty that she holds inside her beautiful mind and showcases that on her beautifully written poems and novels. These talks of the town were hammered into Mary’s mind. Sad! Isn’t it? Nahhhh! Instead, She grew beautifully! Mary Ann Evans known by her pen name George Eliot was a famous English Writer in the 19th century, known for her novel “Middlemarch”.

People then and people now, are still denouncing her for the decisions she took in her personal life (Life that is hers and only hers), like being a mistress for twenty four years to a man who was married or marrying a man who was 20 years younger to her or for all the flings that she had with men. A 24 years old critic Anne Fremantle wrote “ It must be a terrible sorrow to be young and unattractive: to look in the mirror and see sallow unhealthy face, with a yellowish skin, straight nose and mouse coloured hair.” Another critic William Michael Rossetti wrote, “ She was woman with next to no feminine beauty or charm or of countenance or person.” Who gave these people the right to judge a person in such filthy manner? NOBODY!

You see, people talk and they will keep talking. People with very low IQ levels, who do not want to acknowledge the truth that facial features is something one cannot choose but what one can definitely choose is whether he/she wants to grow or not. Growth of mind and sprituality, growth of kindness and compassion. How much a person has grown in life should be the scale of measurement for a human rather than how a person’s facial feature look, beautiful or ugly (something which is neither chosen by that person nor can define the person is actually beautiful from inside or not)?

I don’t know what George Eliot must have gone through. We cannot stop the world from talking. We can only stop ourselves from getting bothered by these lowbrow people. One should always keep the focus on their personal growth and no matter what people say, keep moving ahead. Mindless will deal with their Diarrhea of Mouth. That’s what George Eliot did. She did what she felt was right for her. She did her part. She wrote beautifully. She grew beautifully!