Being ugly ruins your life much more than attractive people like to admit

I'm healthy, fit, educated and according to others smart and likeable. I have friends, a good job and am a hard working guy. I have an easy time meeting new people and of course I also cover the basics like hygiene and grooming.

But I'm also bald and short and have a below average face, so none of this actually matters. Zero romantic interest from women of course, and people who don't know me and my personality always treat me like sh%t. My life only consists of earning money, my hobbies and my pets.

Being ugly makes you incredibly lonely. You never get to share your successes with anyone, nobody is happy with or for you.

When I got my master's degree as a guy from a poor family with no academic background and no support in that regard, I had nobody to really share that with. It was just another day. Just like every birthday I had in almost 2 decades. Work, go home, shut up.

Meanwhile everybody around me gets love and appreciation for everything they do. Or they don't even have to do anything, because so many days of the year just celebrate their existence. valentines day, birthdays, christmas. Just because they look good enough to be attractive. Not that I don't want them to have this. I'm happy for them. But it inevitably reminds you that you're not worth enough in the eyes of others, just because you were born with certain physical traits.