I had the most humiliating experience of my life today at work.

[bhikkhu]

28. For men, as well as for women, beauty is largely on the inside

anyone who judges a book by its cover has some growing up to do. Some of the most interesting and truly charismatic people I've known over the years had nothing that you would call "physical beauty". Some of the most physically beautiful (and when I was young I was guilty of hanging out preferentially with those types) were, in retrospect, also the most trivial.

When I was growing up I had a cousin who was overweight, and very shy and kind of downcast; I never got to know her, and never thought much of it. Years later she's gotten her confidence, and I come to find she's brilliant, clever, insightful ,and one of the most interesting people I know. I told her the other day I wish I'd gotten to know her better when we were kids, as I always felt kind of isolated myself. We could have been great friends back then, and I would have felt much less isolated. She just gave me a real smiled and said "well, that makes my day".

Don't hide, let people know who you really are, and feel sorry for the ones that don't give you the chance.