Sorry if it hurts, but I won’t call you ‘beautiful’.

How to compliment right in this world filled with idiocy

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‘She is beautiful. Isn’t she?’, said my friend, showing me the photo of him with his girlfriend for the first time.

I said: ‘Yes. She is. But, beautiful toh sabhi hote hai bhai’. [Yes. She is. But isn’t everyone beautiful?]

‘No’, he said. Some people aren’t. And cited some names we mutually know to support his argument.

To which I countered: ‘No. It’s not like that. They may not be particularly attractive, which doesn’t make a room stare at them… but that doesn’t take away the tag of ‘beautiful’ from them.’

‘You are mad’, he said.

‘Learning from you, sir.’ I replied.

Note that I am not trying to portray my friend as an insensitive person. He is one of the best people to have as a friend.

But I also feel that some people tend to be ‘too quick to judge’ someone and score them on so-called ‘beauty points’.

Someone might quote ‘first impression is the last impression’, which means even if it sounds rude, people will judge you on how you look, and you have to work on it.