Pretty gets easy

“You know, you’re looking very pretty today,” said a colleague of mine. She made my day because compliments are hard to come by especially from the same sex. We are more critical of each other and when they come, you know how rarely they’ll fall on you. Hence, you preserve it well.
Life is pretty and a little easy for people who score big on the looks department. They get away much easily than people who aren't’t born with great looks. One killing look or a beautiful smile makes people suddenly compassionate towards them. Even the shrewdest of bosses soften up and overlook their performance. Whoever said that looks doesn’t matter, I will contend that. It surely does in the corporate and personal world.
And, I don’t blame the others. I too go a little easy on killer looks. It makes the day a little more bearable if you have good looking people around you. I stretch myself a little more whenever lookers are involved in my professional territory. I try to complain a little less when deadlines run steep. I try to create less problems when a looker is handling the account. Even better if the person heading the project is a joy to look at and I follow his order to the tee, on such rare occasions. After all, this is not an ideal world to work in.
We are all human and I am no less. So every time there is a new hire, the office goes in chorus enquiring about the person’s scores on the appearance factor. I join in unison. You can’t blame anyone because we end up spending more time slogging endless hours and life gets better if you have a looker to keep the motivation high.
On the personal front, I am weary of lookers. Lookers come with a statutory warning of extra efforts to retain them. They have a tendency to look around and end up with people who look better than you. All the time you end up worrying about their market value and the many takers who are ready to grab them from you. Most lookers know that and they are too absorbed in the qualities of their face value to which they have no contribution of their own other than thanking their good genes.
But whatever the truth is, good looking people makes the world a pretty place to dwell in. Agree it or not, it is always better if you get a pretty face to glare at. And if complements come your way, grab it and enjoy as long as it last. Who cares if the taker actually means it or not, good words are music to the ears!

Have a pretty great day!

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