Is it really what's inside that counts?

If you can’t connect with somone then it’s a lost cause. It’s the connection that seals the bond.

Yes, it really is. If you only like people based on whats on the outside…well that isn’t going to last forever so you better find someone who you’ll be able to deal with after all the physical things you like about them disappear. If you’re in love with someone and connected to them on an emotional level and they happen to be super good looking, that’s a bonus, but it’s not the most important thing.

It is not true for shallow people who only see the outside of you.
And the swimming thing is not a myth. You are more susceptible to cramps if you eat a heavy meal and then go swimming immediately thereafter.

Mostly yes. Although it wouldn’t matter how amazing they were inside if the outside looked like a Baboons arse!

Why lean on one or the other? Both the inside and outside count in my opinion.

Generally speaking. Yes, even when you are hung up on looks.
Good looks translate (in theory) to good health. Meaning you take care of yourself.

Taking care of yourself is about what is inside of you.

Yes.Especially when it’s a rich chocolatey center ;)

@lucillelucillelucille – I don’t know how to read that. ;-) lol

@Dibley -The connection is everything :)

@ChazMaz -Read it when you’re hammered! lol!

@lucillelucillelucille Very true.

Depends on who is counting.

What’s inside counts a lot. So does what is outside. We are complete people—body and mind. We are not just brains.

I think people say things like that because they want their children who feel bad about how they look to feel better. It’s a good strategy, but it is missing some of the point. Our being is holistic. It is what we look like and how we feel about what we look like and how we want to change ourselves and about our physical capabilities, and about how we physically inhabit our space and how we think about those things and how we think, and how we feel, and what we believe our connection to the outside is like.

It’s all that. Inside counts. But so does outside. To say inside “really” counts is to try to brush over the outside. Everyone feels secretly uneasy about that. It’s a kind of constructive denial. Except it may also be destructive.

Yep, what is in the inside counts for everything unless you keep it bottled up, then you are selling not only yourself short but others who may love and care for you.

Yes it certainly what is in the inside that counts.
The outside can be made to look different to the actuality, but the heart and soul is on the inside, and you can’t see that.

It certainly counts when it comes to chocolates. Raspberry creams rock!

What’s on the inside is everything…have you ever noticed that once you get to know someone, you don’t even see the outside anymore?

@wundayatta – That’s what I would have said were I as articulate as you. Much lurve!

It is what counts to me though I obviously still need to be attracted to a partner. But if they don’t have intelligence, if they can’t challenge me, forget it.

Inside. The older you get, the more it’s true.

@galileogirl Oh yes please… save one for me!

Whether it’s good or bad, it is what’s inside that counts, as ultimately all our judgment comes from within.

I vote for inside too, but it’s the outside that usually starts your interest. I don’t mean always good looking but taken care of and no rotting teeth in the front of your mouth. I’d go without food to fix my teeth.

If you were blind, would you care about the inside more, or the outside?

Yes, I believe it to be.

It better be, because what’s outside can change on you with very little notice. My hair, for instance used to be long and auburn, then a bad reaction to some medication made it turn white and start falling out. I had to cut it short because it was clogging the plumbing, and I pretty much do the ‘comb over’ to cover the bald front part.

I also used to be very thin, and people were always saying how can you eat a full plate of spaghetti and stay that thin? Then, around 40, slowly, but surely, I started gaining a pound every month and filling out, and then filling out even more. I finally leveled off and now I’m a little butter ball at 60 pounds overweight.

@phillis…Duh!! If you were blind you couldn’t possibly see the inside!!

So basically we are all a bunch of Hot Pockets.

Hmm, pizza pops.

@ChazMaz I see myself as more of a Pop Tart!