Ugliness

His physical ugliness revealed my inner ugliness. I was repulsed by him, through no moral flaw on his part, though my mind rapidly sought to find one. I wanted to justify my revulsion; I could not accept that I was repulsed by someone merely for their physical appearance. But, perhaps because I was slow in my thinking, I saw clearly what I was doing and when I saw my inner ugliness, when I became aware of its existence, I wondered how others reacted to my own appearance, and I wondered if they were ever conscious of it as I had just become. Perhaps those who were faster in their thinking couldn't tell what their minds were doing.
And I decided to forgive them for what they did not know.

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