listening

"listen, my son, to your father's instruction and do not forsake your mother's teaching.
they will be a garland to grace your head and a chain to adorn your neck." proverbs 1.8-9

it seems that in listening we become beautiful. or, more precisely, in listening to (ie, taking on, treating as important, respecting) "your father's instruction" and "your mother's teaching", these very instruction and teaching will the things that adorn us. it's not that we are beautiful because we listen, but it's the "wearing" of these words from our parents that is beautiful.