Not all the antelope have the natural beauty of the gemsbok, the impala, or the springbok. Yes, there is the hartebeest. This animal has the coloring of the North American elk, with a head that looks like an amateur trying to sculpt a cow then changing to a goat.
In my view, this is the ugliest antelope in Africa. But, everybody has an opinion.
And, good looks aren't all they are cracked up to be. I have often wanted to write a little essay on the advantages of being ugly. Think about it. You are LESS attractive to the opposite sex, which, if you are married, is a big advantage. You are NOT likely to be confused as a movie star or music icon. No one bugs you about modeling, or posing for magazines. See, being ugly is an advantage.
Some of you saw this quote I used for a while From a 2005 commencement speech by writer and prof David Foster Wallace, apparently a keen observer of human nature., but I think it is worth reading once more.
"There is no such thing as not worshiping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And the compelling reason for maybe choosing some sort of god or spiritual-type thing to worship — be it JC or Allah, be it YHWH ...— is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive. If you worship money and things, if they are where you tap real meaning in life, then you will never have enough, never feel you have enough. It’s the truth. Worship your body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly. And when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you.[...] Worship your intellect, being seen as smart, you will end up feeling stupid, a fraud, always on the verge of being found out. But the insidious thing about these forms of worship is not that they’re evil or sinful, it’s that they’re unconscious. They are default settings."
Pretty wise words from a prof. I wish he had accepted Christ.
And I wish the same for all of you.
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