How much importance do you give to physical appearance?

Well, if one were to look at all the disparate peoples in my life that were very close to me, I think it'd be hard to say that I didn't get along with all kinds of people, physically speaking. I guess that means that I don't go after people who are beautiful-looking *because* they are beautiful-looking, though that may simply be because I've convinced myself that the drop-dead gorgeous people would never want to be caught dead with me, so I choose to stay away from them from the start.

But anyway... I think the phrase means that what people look like has absolutely no bearing on what they act like, or at the very least, what people look like doesn't cause them to act a certain way. It's the other way around, actually... the way people are changes what they look like. It's fair to make judgements on people based on what they look like to a degree, but it's never fair to completely fall in love with someone or write them off based solely on what they look like.

I would have missed out on quite a lot of good friendships if I had done things that way. Right now, I've got a friend who could very easily have been the stereotypical rich kid's son (and would therefore be someone that I wouldn't want to spend much time with) but he goes against that mold in so many different ways that I almost couldn't believe that he was what he said he was until I met his father. Beyond that, we spend a ton of time together and have gotten very close, and I would have completely missed out on that if I had accepted what he looked like to be what he was.

Jam it back in, in the dark.