Every matrimonial advertisement in the newspapers uses the adjectives like fair, beautiful, homely for girls and handsome, well settled, earning in six figures for boys. This makes me wonder what one should look for in his/her prospective spouse. Is beauty the only quality of woman that makes the marital life bliss? Is the money that the boy brings home sufficient to pump happiness into the relationship?

The answers to these questions being subjective may vary from person to person. Indeed I am wondering if I get a beautiful wife, what a big difference is her beauty going make to my life. Yes, the society may appreciate her beauty and my luck on every possible occasion.  But whether her beauty will assure my happiness.

The girl who loves me is not beautiful in the conventional sense of the term. She is hardly four feet tall ( I am a six footer),  is dark in complexion ( I am fair) and wears specs.  But she cares for me a lot. My single sneeze will give her sleepless nights. For her I am at her centre of her happiness. Whether I am with her or not, she only wants me to be happy. Yes I have got a beautiful body, but her soul is more beautiful than mine.