This portrait is gorgeous @stef1…her eyes are penetrating. Fantastic work!

Beauty and attraction can be a double-edged sword. I agree, it seems physically attractive people are treated better, maybe because people like to be in the presence of that attraction, or they just want attractive people to like them.

But if physically attractive people let their genetic asset become an excuse to not be a nice person, and that “physical beauty” eventually wears off with age, now that person does not have physical beauty or inner beauty… possibly a little bit of entitlement in their personality, because they didn't have to work as hard because of their attractiveness…that is a terrible combination in a person.

This scenario is not with all “attractive” people obviously, probably not most, because I think most people are good people. But the best attraction, is the attraction of a good personality, with the qualities that you wrote, being polite, attentive to others, etc… And those are the people that I find most attractive.