The old saying Beauty is only skin deep – is it true?
I think it’s origins are correct in a way, as it is saying that just because someone is beautiful on the outside doesn’t mean that they are beautiful on the inside. Fair enough – and true in lots of cases.
But if we look at it another way may be the saying is telling people that beauty is on the outside – this gives the impression that to stay beautiful, or make yourself beautiful you would just need to pay attention to the outside. This is wrong on two levels:
One: Poople can be beautiful people with out looking conventially beautiful. Infact people can be beautiful people but look ugly on the outside. A person can be beautiful because they have a beautiful personality or they treat people really nicely or many of those things.
Two: Beauty if we are talking about conventional beauty – would probably mean to most people clear health skin, clear healthy eyes, nice white teeth, healthy glow to your skin, free of bodily nasties like warts and acne etc. But to get the good skin, the clear eyes etc you can’t just apply creams and potions and lotions and elixers to your skin! This is where beauty is definately not skin deep – you will have a much better effect on your skin, hair, nails and all the other things that will make you more beautiful if you concentrate on looking what you put IN your body.
If you eat crap and junkfood all day and night and wash it down with some fizzy drink do you think you will look beautiful for long? The answer to that is no. You need to eat fresh vegetables and fruit, drink lots of fresh, clean water, get a moderate amount of sun and excercise, get a good nights sleep and think poitively about your life.
The reason for the positive thinking is not only so you don’t end up with frown lines, it;s also because happy people look and feel better about themselves – and the happy, confident people look the most beautiful
Do you need life insurance? Its a good question to start thinking about as people always end up needing insurance when they least expect it. It’s interesting that most people have car insurance, and a lot of people have home insurance, or contents insurance – and quite often both, but not so many people have life insurance.
Life insurance will not only pay out money when you die but will also pay out money if you are critically ill or get a terminal illness. While the first payout mentioned – when you die – is good for your family, it will cover the expenses of your funeral and will help your family to keep surviving money wise when you’re gone – which is extremely important if you are the main breadwinner in your house. But if life insurance only covered you on your death I could understand why a lot of people don’t have life insurance.
But it doesn’t just cover that – it will help you tremendously if you should ever get very sick or get a terminal illness (one that you will eventually die from), like cancer. This is the most important payout that you can get from life insurance. The last thing you need when you get diagnosed with a terminal illness or otherwise get very sick is to worry about financial problems. Chances are you will need to quit work and will have a lot (as in thousands of dollars) more expenses, for treatments etc. So to be able to have a saftey net to help you through those bad times is an amazing concept. Sure you have to pay money towards it – the premiums every month or every year, and sure it can seem like a lot of money at the time to pay – especially if you think sickness or illness will never happen to you.
There are so many extremely sick or terminally ill people in the world – all of them probably thought it would never happen to them. It’s important to think about the what if’s. Could you afford to pay for high priced drugs and treatments if you got sick? Could you afford to keep paying mortgage or rent payments as well, plus food, power, phone etc. When you think about it you can see that getting life insurance for yourself and your family really does make sense.
Don’t foget it doesn’t cost anything to jut find out the prices – you can get free life insurance quotes from most places online. And if you are thinking about getting life insurance don’t think too long – or you may find you needed it after all but are not insured.