“The human body is the best picture of human soul.”

                                                                             Ludwig Wittgenstein

Whenever you see a man the first impression you have is absolutely based on their appearance. And that’s natural and we can’t avoid it. We do judge from the person’s look and usually that judgment differs from the real one. The words somebody says, the voice, the facial expression, the behavior, the way of talking, the gestures everything can be fine and express only good attitude to the listener and to the surroundings but the inner intentions and thoughts are not always that excellent. That’s why I don’t agree with Ludwig Wittgenstein’s quotation “the human body is the best picture of human soul”. Here I’d say that the human body is rather delusive picture of the human soul.

There are many samples in our everyday life and in world literature which can serve as the good proves of it. For instance, Dorian Grey, the character from the famous and my favorite novel by Oscar Wilde. As we know the boy looked fantastic and was really handsome. He got a really great power – his beauty due to which he could manipulate the people and get everything he wanted. But his soul was far from being beautiful. Dorian’s inner world was perfectly shown as the reflection on the ugly portrait. The people adored him and only those who got acquainted closer with him condemned the moment they had done it. All those disgusting things we do in our lives aren’t just passing by, they do leave the trails. I believe in the existing of boomerang principle. Whenever you offend or cheat on somebody, be careful, because they can offend or cheat on you.

The point is that we should be sincere, more thoughtful and honest to each other. However this task is not the easy one.=)

Nowadays there are a lot of so called “Dorians” whose bodies are not the best pictures of their souls, unfortunately.