Is being pretty everything?

My Friday today began like this:



Ok, no proposals for me, but I started my day watching the vid, lah. Duh.

I didn't get to watch the entire thing in one sitting - the video is edited in such a way that even those with the hardest of hearts would suddenly be (gasp!) in a teary mush.

While I was definitely moved by the video, I have to say, the proposal idea itself isn't that original. I am sure there are a thousand guys out there who have done the same thing.

And having attended so many weddings I don't care about, that video was probably made to be used during the wedding dinner.

Yes, yes. Cynical me. Blah blah blah.

But you know what, even cynical me wished something like that would happen in her future. Perhaps not in the near future, and of course not from someone who looks that dude.

And then.... The whole looks versus personality and everything else argument came into the picture.

I've never been afraid to say that I consider looks important in my partner. Perhaps that is the reason why I am still single. *shrugs*

I'm not one of those people who preach that personality is more important, and that looks are merely temporary. I brush these comments off just like I ignore idiots because they're pretty much false.

At the very root of it all, there must be some form of physical attraction between two people for a relationship to work. Above other things like personality matches and chemsitry, of course. Just like Audrey and Tim. Audrey's cute, and Tim's... cute-ish too. Cute to Audrey, at least.

I don't question that. But if Audrey tells me she doesn't go for looks I'm gonna walk away.

Because she must, in some unfathomable (Is there such a word?) way, be attracted to Tim physically as she is in any other way.

But then I find myself in a sticky situation. I claim to place good looks as an important factor in my partner, so I like good-looking boys. On the other hand, I get disgruntled when boys tell me that they like pretty girls.

Not in a OMG-why-are-you-so-shallow way, but more like a yes-but-what-about-me way. I understand why they like pretty girls - the exact same reason why I like pretty boys.

But just like what Fat Cat says in her song:



It's not that looks are everything, but there's also something more that you need to discover about me that you may also like.

I don't know. And you'll never know if you don't question what you see on the outside.

Her pretty eyes may just be enhanced by false eyelashes and eyeliner (I don't use those very often, by the way, I have naturally pretty eyes! Muahaha.). Or maybe she had plastic surgery.

Just sayin'.

;)