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Thursday, March 29, 2012

Club dei Brutti

The Italian Club dei Brutti is the World Association of Ugly People. I viewed a film on this club during my high school career and immediately desired to join my comrades. 


Their motto is "A person is what he is and not what he looks like," and has the approach of "Ugliness is a virtue, beauty is slavery."


As my roommate and I stood before the bathroom sink mirror this morning, we looked at ourselves and asked, "why are we so ugly?" We had not yet gone through the make-up lathering ritual, and officially coined the phrase, "rough." This phrase can be used as in, "looking rough, we are looking rough, and tough and rough."


At least we have each other. 


You are unique, along with everyone else. You are ugly, along with everyone else. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. What is beauty. What is true beauty. Can it ever be true. And in it's untruthfulness, is that what makes something beautiful, because it is "rough" around the edges. It has character.


Well, as we were walking around campus to get our exercise and pursue the explosion of thoughts and this issue among many others, I found several charming, un-beautiful things. And for that, they were beautiful.


Please contact me if any of these belong to you. And for now, I'll hold onto them for safe keeping.
They hold sentimental value and whatnot in my pocket.




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