PERCEPTION: Judgement of What is Good

We often have time for the challenges of not looking great in a looks-obsessed world. But spare a thought for that more unusual problem: that of being too beautiful...

It sounds paradoxical to talk of the problems of being beautiful, when we’re so alive to all the advantages that go with possessing sculpted cheekbones, copious amounts of hair, an ideal nose, long, slender legs and well-molded ankles. But the subject is necessary and legitimate, because beauty is not in fact problem-free. There are a range of ailments (too little discussed) that go with being extremely beautiful.