"Everything Has Beauty, but Not Everybody Sees It"--Confucious
It has never really bothered me, (much), but, I have never been called "beautiful," so that word has always held for me a foundation of unattainability, and therefore, mystery. Kind of makes me wonder--What makes something--or someone--full of beauty?
The great and powerful Sophia Loren once said, "True beauty is a mirage." True beauty? What IS that, anyway? In your mind, what is "true beauty?"
Myself, I am awed by things of beauty, no matter what--or who--they might be (Ryan Gosling...ahem…sunsets...butterflies...puppies...creme brulee).
This week, I would like you to muse with me about this concept. Over time, across cultures, the mystery of beauty has both vexed and captivated all walks of life. The animal kingdom even has its own notion of what makes them attractive—peacocks fluff their plumage, ducks wiggle their butts, all in the name of beauty. They do it to attract mates--is that why we do?
Do we chase beauty? Do we worship it? Are beautiful people treated differently that those considered less so?
Men and women have been frustrated and fascinated by beauty, have been rendered powerless in their attempts to capture it, bottle it, enhance it, ignore it, use it and celebrate it. WHY?? Why do you think human beings are so enthralled with the idea of trying to capture "beauty?" (this is kinda the same question as the one earlier, but as you can see, I feel strongly about this.)
Why? Its importance and its role in our lives will be the subject of this blog discussion, and I would like you to seriously consider what your definition of “true beauty” is. Why is beauty the object of both admiration and envy? Why does the pursuit of beauty bring us pain as well as pleasure? Consider both sexes when you ask yourself these questions—think about the pursuit, the pain, the pleasure from all angles.
Do you see yourself as beautiful? How do you measure it? Who is the most beautiful person you know? Why?
The great and powerful Sophia Loren once said, "True beauty is a mirage." True beauty? What IS that, anyway? In your mind, what is "true beauty?"
Myself, I am awed by things of beauty, no matter what--or who--they might be (Ryan Gosling...ahem…sunsets...butterflies...puppies...creme brulee).
This week, I would like you to muse with me about this concept. Over time, across cultures, the mystery of beauty has both vexed and captivated all walks of life. The animal kingdom even has its own notion of what makes them attractive—peacocks fluff their plumage, ducks wiggle their butts, all in the name of beauty. They do it to attract mates--is that why we do?
Do we chase beauty? Do we worship it? Are beautiful people treated differently that those considered less so?
Men and women have been frustrated and fascinated by beauty, have been rendered powerless in their attempts to capture it, bottle it, enhance it, ignore it, use it and celebrate it. WHY?? Why do you think human beings are so enthralled with the idea of trying to capture "beauty?" (this is kinda the same question as the one earlier, but as you can see, I feel strongly about this.)
Why? Its importance and its role in our lives will be the subject of this blog discussion, and I would like you to seriously consider what your definition of “true beauty” is. Why is beauty the object of both admiration and envy? Why does the pursuit of beauty bring us pain as well as pleasure? Consider both sexes when you ask yourself these questions—think about the pursuit, the pain, the pleasure from all angles.
Do you see yourself as beautiful? How do you measure it? Who is the most beautiful person you know? Why?
To me beauty is something that has to take your breath away at first glance. When you first look at something someone beautiful you already know. People often admire beauty because beautiful people do have a higher chance of being successful and people want to be like them. People also envy beauty because they feel as if they are not beautiful and have been wronged in life because of it. Some people do want to become beautiful by any means possible. Whether it be exercise or changing how your face looks people want to be beautiful and be regarded as so. When people achieve these goals it brings them great pride. But when they cannot or constantly compare themselves to others they feel they are inferior and become very insecure.
ReplyDeleteI believe I am beautiful. I believe I have worked hard to become what I am today. I also believe everyone else has the power to one day believe they themselves are beautiful as well. Even if you don’t think you are, someone somewhere out there does. I don’t think beauty can be truly measured. It is all subjective. The most beautiful person I know is David Laid. He is a bodybuilder from Galloway who I aspire to look like even vaguely. He is my spirit animal.
Beauty to me can be found in anyone. I believe that everyone has something about them that is beautiful. take may for example she is very quiet and reserved but she has such a beautiful smile. Or Brielle her personality to me is beautiful , and zariah though she looks mean in the hallways she is such a sweetheart and to me that is beautiful. People envy others because they can't see the beauty that they have inside beauty shouldn't always be about looks. That's whats so hard about beauty we tend to think that it's about looks, that to be beautiful you have to be a beyonce or a rihanna or a j-lo. But even though i don't know them very well i can name about 10 more people in our ap lang class who are beautiful and to me who shines brighter then beyonce ever could. I see myself as beautiful in certain ways, i think its beautiful that i can forgive a lot of people even after they put me through really bad stuff.
ReplyDelete“True beauty” is reflected in one’s soul and radiates from the heart, and should radiate out into the world. I don’t feel as though we chase beauty, it’s more like we chase the feeling of feeling beautiful.
ReplyDeleteFor me, being comfortable in my own skin makes me feel beautiful. There will be people in life who will not necessarily see the beauty that you see in yourself, and that’s okay. Keeping a smile on your face and staying true to yourself when people doubt you is when your true beauty begins to show.
I feel as though the word unique is the best synonym for the word beautiful. Someone who is beautiful is someone who is their true self, someone who spreads positive energy, someone who has goals they are determined to achieve, and someone who’s personality can make your heart melt.
I do not necessarily believe that human beings are so enthralled with the idea of trying to capture beauty, I feel that we are captivated with the idea of confidence. Beauty is the object of both admiration and envy for the reason that not many people have that confidence needed to feel beautiful. When that confidence is gained, one may feel on top of the world. When that confidence is not present very often or maybe not at all, it causes someone to envy those who have that confidence they don’t have. The pursuit of beauty brings us pain as well as pleasure for this reason as well.
I do see myself as beautiful, and it feels so good saying that confidently. I have my flaws like everyone else, external and internal, but it’s all about being happy with yourself and who you are at the end of the day. I know myself and I’m proud of who I am, and that makes me beautiful.
I’m not sure who the most beautiful person I know is for the reason that we are all beautiful in our own ways. We all have beauty within us, and I believe God makes us all with the same amount of beauty. It is how you show it, how much you choose to show of it, and how in terms you are with it which makes you unbelievably beautiful.
P.S. Bunj, you’re beautiful!
Beauty is not so simple as one might think, the image that might pop into your head as beauty is a girl with soft hair, white smile, basically flawless in every way you can imagine or a guy who’s built, nice jawline, and is tall. But beauty is so much more complicated in so many ways. It’s all about your interpretations of others and self perception of oneself. Let’s start with the media’s standards of beauty, which usually consist of a person with lighter skin, who is modified to have no flaws, but what even is a flaw? You may think as does as pimples, scars, deformed body shapes, laugh lines, and the list is endless, but people are all different, some like laugh lines, some don’t even notice these “flaws” exist. The word flaw itself is poison because all those things considered flaws are a normal part of being a human, and if you don’t get them then that’s cool, but you will get something else that makes you equally human to everyone else. Your “flaws” may be what someone finds most attractive about you, so let’s not call them flaws, let’s call them...you. Everyone has their personal interest, but the media has standardized its expectations of beauty. Beauty is greater than just looks, your personality makes up 65% of your beauty. The thing is most people will never get to see your personality, because we use things like Instagram to determine beauty. Instagram and Snapchat culture is an even bigger problem to be discussed elsewhere. On Instagram you can see people who most likely used editing app, and spent a lot of time to make themselves seem standardly beautiful. Why does everyone want to be so beautiful? Well..why wouldn’t you want to be, being considered beautiful by a lump some of people whether that be standarly or uniquely beautiful feels great. You a prime example of attractiveness, people look at you and are in awe, people want you and want to be around you, being wanted like this makes you a socialite, which makes you well known, and it doesn’t matter what mental things you have going on like if your shy you’ll still be adored and sometimes envied for your beauty. So wanting to capture beauty and be it is not a sin. There is beauty in music, scenery, and people, so to want to capture that beauty should be a goal, as long as finding the beauty means being yourself. If you search for beauty using the standards set by others then you are not searching for beauty your searching for acceptance, and that’s definitely not what life is about. There are people around me who are beautiful is so many ways. Aryel I think has a beautiful personality, Catherine is beautiful for her style, Brielle is beautiful for her courage, charlie is beautiful for her randomness, Madison is beautiful for her awkwardness, Cimidori is beautiful for her humor, Hannah is beautiful for her voice, Pheobe is beautiful for her eyes, Cayla is beautiful for her outgoingness, Kate is beautiful for her demeanor, May is beautiful for her intellect, Julianna is beautiful for her beliefs, Bunje is beautiful in every word she says, im beautiful for being me which is what we should only count, we are all beautiful in ways that other people see, what even is a flaw?
ReplyDeleteEveryone has chased beauty at one point in their life. Most of us do it everyday;the clothes we wear, the shoes, our hair and the way we hold ourselves. Atleast once everyone has woken up and thought “ I’m going to look beautiful today or I’m going to look nice today”. The world worships beauty in one way or another. The beauty of the enviroment and people. We worship things that take our breath away, make our hearts beat a little harder and make you smile. Beautiful people want to say they don’t get treated differently but they do. Guys will go that little extra mile for someone they view as beautiful, same with girls. It has a bit to do with being liked by the people seen as beautiful. If your associated with them, you could be seen as beautiful too. Or you just have feelings and in order to get the attention of someone you like, you have to treat them differently. My definition of beauty is being different. Because people who are beautiful are unique and have some kind of special glow to them. Being attractive puts you on a pedistal, you are seen as amazing and special. You will be treated as though there is no other beauty in the world, because beauty is seen as just being attractive rather than other things. I don’t know if I see myself as beautiful. It depends on the day but most of the time no. My older sister was called beautiful constantly and was treated differently than me. I’ve seen how people treat girls that are beautiful and thats not how they treat me. I’m quite bland in my opinion, nothing really special. Although I see beauty as something that is both outside and inside I still wouldn’t really say I’m beautiful. The most beautiful person I know is probably between my Mom,my sister,my bestfriend Sarah and Lainey Day. My Mom because she is physically beautiful but she also does so much for my family. She constantly brings the love of God. She recently went to the Dominican Republic and shared her faith and built houses and painted. She is my best friend and has always been there for me. My closet friend Sarah Eng, was a hidden gem, we hung out strictly at Spruce Lake and didn’t talk outside of it. But this past Spruce lake we got really close and spent so much time together. She is the only person I’ve ever poured out my heart to and told everything I’ve ever felt. She is just the best, she is always there to support me and she just cares about me so much. She has the biggest heart and loves endlessly . I could go on and on about what shes done for me. Lainey Day was a huge character in oakcrest before she went off to college. Everywhere she went she lit up the room. Constantly smiling and in a good mood. She loved and cared for so many people in our school and was a friend to everyone. She always talked about God and became an example for all christians in this school to follow. Physically all these people are so beautiful but its in their heart where you see it the most. If it was all physically I would have said Chris Hemsworth or Chris Pratt but I don’t know any of them personally.
ReplyDeleteTo me beauty is kindness, radiance, it’s when someone is forever willing to share their happiness with others with no expectation of future compensation. True beauty is love being free, people letting their culture shine through without hating others. It’s all the good in the world wrapped up inside a human being that makes you unimaginably happy. That’s what makes a person have true beauty. I think people as a whole chase their own versions of beauty. I certainly chase mine. For some people beauty is models and high fashion and makeup. Some people find beauty is cities and how the world is lit up and night by signs and flashing light. I find beauty in the natural world. In the sun as it peeks over the horizon of the ocean on a brisk fall morning. The chirping of baby birds as the world transitions to spring in late April. The silence of snow falling and seeing the fresh blanket is the morning. The laughter that echos behind as children play in it or the snaps of my dogs jaws’ as they try to eat the flurries. A summer night when the sky is clear and all the stars seem to be winking as you. Soft guitar plays from the front of the truck as you and your friends lay on blankets laid down in the bed. Waking up to a fresh face clean, no mascara or eyeshadow. Bed head to the extreme. Coming out of the shower everything is fresh and new. I find beauty in different cultures, shapes, faces, etc. Beauty to me is the natural world. The state the people are in when they smile and laugh, wholeheartedly. The kind that is absolutely uncontrollable that results in snorting and rosy cheeks. I don’t think that the “conventional” idea of beauty is what attracts “mates” I think happiness does. A lot of people I know think I’m ridiculous and that love is a sham. I have hope, and somethings happen for whatever reason, but love is out there. The whole world would’ve blown up by now if it didn’t. I think that many people associate beauty with happiness and that’s why everyone wants it so badly. It’s not beauty that people want to capture. It’s other people’s happiness that we find beauty in, such as a genuine smile, we want to be happy. I think we envy other people’s happiness when we don’t have are own. It’s painful when we are in a stump and we think “maybe if I was thinner or had better curves” or “maybe if my acne wasn’t so terrible people would notice me and want to spend time with me”. People post plenty about how no one is there for them when they are sad. Do those people make a conscious effort to be happy? Constantly push away those who try to make them laugh? People sometimes fake injuries and mental illness to get attention and that takes away from those who need the help. I think when people see those who get attention, people who don’t look lonely, they long for the large crowd around them and they think “I’m prettier than her why does everyone like her?” (I have actually heard girls say these things) and the answer is because that person, boy or girl, is happy. Free of worrying about looking stupid or being made fun of they just live and try to be happy enough that they are. Some people need help, but if they ask, genuinely, they’ll receive it. I don’t know if I went into a small tangent when talking about physical beauty, but I just don’t see they hype or the need to fake things for attention. I just think beauty is happiness, I think happy people who embrace themselves radiate light and happiness and that’s what I want to be is happy, that’s what creates beauty.
ReplyDeleteIf you ask a group of people “what is beauty?”, the amount of varied responses will be too many to narrow down. The social media fanatic will say “a full face of makeup and hair extensions”, the scientists will say “a symmetrical face and straight teeth”, while the artsy ones will give an answer along the lines of “positive vibes”. Me on the other hand, believe physical beauty and inner beauty have nothing to do with each other.
ReplyDeletePhysical beauty standards, for most people, come from society and social media. There are “instagram models” that all have a small waist but big butts and wide hips but flat stomach, so when girls, in particular, are growing up and don’t look like that, this is where insecurity grows from. Then there’s also the tweets or comments that say “love your natural beauty *heart eye emojis*” under a picture of a girl that has a full face of makeup, hair extensions, lip filler, botox, and/or some sort of plastic surgery. This makes young girls think “she is beautiful, but I’d need to do all those things plus more to be like that” and again, insecurity comes up.
Inner beauty does have to do with how people treat others and how they make others feel when they’re around. When people have beautiful personalities, you want to surround yourself with them while if someone is mean and ignorant, no matter how pretty they are physically, you don’t want to be in their presence. Therefore inner beauty is superior.
Back to society’s influence on beauty standards. Everyone definitely strives for beauty or has wanted to mold themselves into the high standards at some point in their lives. There’s a stigma that you live a better life when you are more attractive and I somewhat think that’s true. I know it’s not quite the same thing but there’s a clear difference between how people treat you when you are wearing sweatpants and a T-shirt versus the treatment towards you when wearing a dress or something very trendy. I think this has to do with the perceived correlation between beauty and power.
When those striving for beauty don’t quite reach it, there’s nothing good that could come from that. Now there’s a disappointment in themselves and jealousy of other people.
I have many beautiful people in my life because I surround myself with those type of people but the most beautiful person in my life is my mom. I know it’s cliche, but it’s true. She’s so selfless and always try to look for the best in others. She is one of the only people that can calm me down just with her presence and just like people strive to be beautiful, I strive to be my mom.
What makes someone or something full of beauty is when it's attractive to the eye like the wings of a butterfly or the feathers of a peacock. Or it could be something spectacular that astonishes or something that is done in such perfection that there is nothing else to call it then simply beauty.
ReplyDeleteTrue beauty is something that is pure, something that is natural, and something that can’t be taken away.
Yes we do do similar things that the animal kingdom does to attract mates sort of, either by making us look attractive by body types, makeup, plastic surgery, exercise, weight lifting etc…..
Yes some do chase beauty, some do worship beauty especially in past generations, and in past generations beauty was treated differently and it kind of is the same today but not as it was compared to o so long ago.
I think human beings are so enthralled by beauty because it’s something that makes you skip a beat or stop you in your tracks. It’s something so compelling that it raptures us when we see it.
Beauty is the object of admiration and envy because the people that have the beauty admire people like them and cherish it, while the ones that don’t have that particular beauty get jealous and start to envy it since it’s something that they can’t grasp at and control.
The pursuit of beauty brings pain and pleasure because it’s something that many people chase and whether you do not chase your prize your very let down, However if you do chase your prize and manage to capture it, your very joyful to see what you got and can enjoy for either a short period of time or a very long time.
Beauty has sometimes been difficult for me. But I believe there's beauty in everything (yes, cheesy), like in all of our 5 senses: if you smell the luscious scent of fresh roses, if you touch the soft smoothness of silk, if you hear the call of birds, if you see the magical rainbow after a rainy storm, and if your taste buds dance after taking a bite of your favorite dessert. Beauty, inside and out, is strange. But beauty is nothing with a dash of strangeness! All of my friends are beautiful in so many ways, in every way; their voices, their movements, the way they look at me with joy, their caring natures... But beauty can also be a villainous thing; it can hide who the demons are in this world. It's the personality that shows the real person, not beauty. And, Miss Bunje, you are no demon. You truly are beautiful, with your flowing words that always sound like the more detailed poetry. You're always coming into class dressed better than I ever am! I believe everyone in this world is beautiful, but it's the personalities that shine brighter.
ReplyDeleteTo me beauty is something that takes your breath away. Admiring that person or thing and you just can’t help but stare. Catches you off guard and makes you smile. Beauty in a person generally speaking is someone that has nice physical features like face, weight, eyes, etc. At this day and age, where social media is a platform for many models, many people follow them or stalk them because they admire their beauty. The girls want to be like them and the boys want them. Beauty can also appear in nature. Last year in Clarks class we watched Into The Wild and one of the quotes were “The simple beauty in life is just too good to pass up” . That is one of my favorite quotes because I love the beauty of the world. Besides the fact that most of the world is polluted there are places that just take your breath away.
ReplyDeleteLike what beyonce said “Pretty hurts” while being beautiful is a pleasure it can also be painful. Many women change themselves to make themselves looks better because they think that their natural identity isn’t enough. They do this by starving themselves, getting surgery, and even go as far as wrapping plastic wrap around their waist just to make them skinnier. Being beautiful does get you far in life due to the endless complements and basically more job opportunities, but it's unhealthy to lots of people.
Do i see myself as beautiful? Well of course ! I mean some days I would feel ugly, but I know that I am beautiful on the inside and out. I never really measured my beauty but I would say I am a bad bitch at the least ! I has tons of self confidence and am comfortable in my own skin. By far the most beautiful people I know are my friends! They are some of the prettiest people I have ever meant and they are the nicest people ever!! I love them all inside and out and wouldn’t ask for better ones.
Beauty is often perceived as something visible, or even as an unattainable standard of perfection. In today’s society “beautiful” typically refers to the outward appearance of a girl who possesses the features others wish they had; some even place themselves on an operating table just to achieve “perfection”. We admire icons such as Beyoncé and Marilyn Monroe because we want to live up the stereotypes that they set when their photoshopped faces are plastered onto billboards and magazine covers. Yet we envy people who we fear possess more beauty than us; the people who will outshine us. The Barbie doll image of perfection is what we are ingrained to believe is beauty. But that kind of beauty is all cosmetic. While a pretty smile or a nice ass can cater to someone’s looks making them attractive, it has absolutely nothing to do with them being a genuinely beautiful person. You could be drop dead gorgeous but if you have an ugly personality, sorry hun, you’re ugly.
ReplyDeleteBeauty is really about who you are on the inside as opposed to what you see when you gaze in the mirror. I think it’s beautiful when someone can positivity effect the lives of those around them. It’s not a smile that is beautiful, rather what makes you smile.
However society sucks, the world would be much different if beauty on the outside reflected the same beauty that exists on the inside. But it doesn’t. When we first meet someone we are all guilty of making assumptions and first impressions immediately based on appearance. This affects how we will treat them and interact with them. If I approach a boy I find attractive I may be more flirtatious and encourage further encounters. However, I’m not as worried about the first impression I leave when it comes to a boy I don’t find attractive. Outward appearances effect how we initially interact with people whether we chose to own up to it or not.
Looks may raise attention and get you interested in a person, but your feelings toward them will change instantly once their true colors bleed through whatever mask of beauty drew you to them in the first place.
The most beautiful person I know is my mother. She doesn’t think that she’s beautiful, she thinks she needs to lose weight, 60 pounds down is not enough for her. She is on an extremely strict diet and she’s close to reaching her goal. Yet, the fact that she’s getting into shape is not why she’s beautiful, she’s be just as beautiful to me if she were 300 pounds. She’s not beautiful because of her green eyes, or perfect teeth. She’s beautiful because of the way she loves her children. She has impacted my life in more positive ways than anyone else on this earth. I think that that indescribable ability to make someone’s life happier, is more beautiful than all of the size zero models at fashion week, or designer clothing, or even a garden of roses. Beauty is a word not to describe the way someone or something looks, but they way it feels to be loved or cared about.
Through the past couple of years, I have notices how dangerous certain beauty standards are and how they have impacted our perception of beauty in a certain environment. Society has always perceived beauty in a very dangerous way because with these perceptions we always pick out those that don’t fit into our beauty standards. It seems as if it’s only a single feature that determines our attractiveness towards that person. It’s not that simple, our perception of beauty can determine our favoritism in a group of people. This can be dangerous in any situations we encounter in our lives. This is dangerous because if our beauty standards are unconsciously misrepresented a certain way, so, we automatically judge someone and their character within seconds. Beautiful people are generally seen as better people, although there is no backing to this, it seems to be more than true. If we know that beauty standards can be impacted by the presence of diversity, and the ability to see people from other cultures on a daily and regular basis, to change beauty standards we must increase diversity. It is impossible to erase beauty standards, but if we add standards, our dimensions of beauty may not be as partial. We are posed with the question of how we can construct to the “American Beauty,” but our only hope is to construct change in diversity. It has always been a struggle for me to have any amount of confidence to call myself beautiful or anything of the sort; I don’t know why but that’s just how I have been ever since I was younger and will probably never change as bad as that sounds. The most beautiful person I seem to know is my mom, she is a women who never goes all out for anything but always manages to look nice. Every time I compliment her, she always denies it or gives me the classic “thanks but no” and I just wish that she could see how beautiful she is in my eyes, but that’s just something she says to me legit all. the. time. But hopefully as time goes on the both of us could see the beauty in ourselves that many people compliment us on.
ReplyDeleteaccording to google dictionary beauty is defined out to be “a combination of qualities, such as shape, color, or form, that pleases the aesthetic senses, especially the sight” or (2) a beautiful woman. I entirely disagree with this. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and it doesn’t have anything to do with combinations, or shape, color, form, and it only partially deals with sight. To me beauty isn’t an always an adjective, it’s more a feeling, “like i feel beautiful” or “that’s so beautiful (adj) it makes me feel happy”. Like a moment that takes your breath away isn't because something just looks pretty but rather because you feel it. True beauty comes from ones soul, it matters on what’s on the inside, literally how you express what you feel “on the inside”. Sometimes the prettiest people are the ugliest, if that makes sense, like their personality can change their entire ego. I think to be beautiful you have to experience some negativity in your life, to remain strong and have the ability to stay positive and give off good vibes is a part of beauty. Being genuine and nice and caring and being yourself define beauty also. I like to think i’m beautiful, though to others that might not be the case. I’m genuine, I’m considerate of others, i’m positive (sometimes), i’m strong, and caring, and sometimes i’m pretty. Though I don’t care if others say other wise because i believe i am.
ReplyDeleteSome things that are so genuinely beautiful, I can’t help myself from feeling some beauty:
Bunje because she’s genuine and can make any day better
Every single person to walk into my AP Lang class because they’re all full of light
the color of people because of the pride that’s worn with it
Eyes, i love blue eyes because i have them but no eyes are the same & brown eyes because none are the same
Smiles, especially crooked smiles because they all have something behind them
Sunrises and Sunsets because each one is unique and is proof everything changes
Flowers especially sunflowers, each one grows through the “dirtiest” dirt to stand tall and pretty.
The most beautiful person I know would be my best friend shauna, probably because she’s the most pure person i know, she can brighten any day and she always carries a smile. that girls been through it but she always comes out on top. Regardless of any situation she will always make the best of it and she always tries her hardest. She is the epitome of beauty.
True beauty is purity. There is so much hate and negativity in this world that when I see someone or something overcome with purity, I find it tremendously beautiful. For myself, beauty has always seemed like the goal. It’s always been what I wanted to achieve although had always been unreachable with the exception of very few occasions. I believe this want, this longing for beauty began as an animal instinct. We then started noticing everyone with a “mate” had similar qualities to one another, creating that desire to obtain similar qualities. Since it has become more than just something to be able to find a mate, it has become mental for an overwhelming amount of people, including myself. When people feel beautiful, they feel confident which leads to being much more joyful and overall leading a happier life. This is not me saying that beauty is everything or you must be beautiful to be happy or without beauty you can’t have happiness because that is not what I believe in the least. But being beautiful does help lead a better life, including when it comes to other people and your interactions. When someone is beautiful or attractive they automatically have it easier than some less attractive people just for that sole reason. For example, (I know it’s not right but I’m telling the truth here) when someone comes into my store I am more likely to not ask them for ID or let them go if they’re a couple cents short if I am attracted to them rather than if I’m not. I also tend to be a little nicer to them, which is awful. I don’t know who the most beautiful person I know is, everyone who’s come to my head so far I love therefore giving them an unfair advantage. These people that I know and love have some very large and important flaws about them, ultimately making them not as beautiful as I perceive them to be. But they all seem to have similar qualities, being generosity, true kindness, humor, gentleness, and a contagious happiness that is untamable. These people try to be the best person they can be but everyone has tribulations they can’t overcome, some just greater than others.
ReplyDeleteBeing full of beauty and simply having beauty are different things. Being full of beauty means that you are a beautiful soul and have a beautiful mind while having beauty is just a pretty face or body. True beauty is being a beautiful human in your heart. You could be the most aesthetically pleasing person on the planet but if you’re a bad person you are automatically ugly. That’s just me. No matter if you value beauty of the inside or beauty of the outside, I believe all people chase it and worship it in a way. Especially physically beauty, the people that are determined as this kind of beauty are at the top of the social food chain. They are more likely to get what they want, more likely to be idolized, to gain friends, or find a mate. As a society we’re soft on pretty people.
ReplyDeleteA person is typically described as “blessed” with beauty. Either God chose them to be beautiful or they hit the genetic jackpot and have the perfect combination that ended up with them looking pretty perfect. At one point or another, in one way or another, we all yearn for this “blessing”. We admire those who have it if we feel that we don’t. For this same reason we envy them. The moment we become beautiful to ourselves we suddenly feel whole and complete because we have achieved what we worked for and we made it through the pain of getting there. The pain came from never seeing what we wanted to see, or simply not being satisfied with our own beauty, or even our beauty not being validated by others. Beauty is something we all yearn for in a way, but it seems impossible to reach. We can’t do too much to change how we look (in the face aside from plastic surgery) so, it can be hard to ever reach that moment of pleasure. Personally, I don’t think I’m unattractive physically. I think I’m good looking, but not necessarily beautiful. One of the prettiest people I have know are one of my friends and my sister Tee. The thing that really solidifies beauty to me is a smile. I think it's because a genuine smile and how you do it is showing your happiness to the world.
First I would like to say that I think everybody is beautiful in their own way. so do we chase beauty? I feel like we all want to be beautiful. We want to feel beautiful. We want to be reassured that were beautiful and I also think we all have different views of what being beautiful is. I think we worship beauty in a way because people we look up to we consider beautiful and we worship them so in a way we do worship beauty. Some people, everyone can agree are beautiful based on their looks and I think that those people are treated differently than those who are more so beautiful on the inside then appearance wise. The main reason I feel that way is because people who may look “beautiful and flawless” are usually role models of many. My definition of true beauty would be having the mindset in which everyone is someone and everyone is important. True beauty is wanting the best for everyone it is having morals and having a respectful aspect. I do see myself as beautiful because I care a lot about other people and I don’t always put myself first I’m a so called “team player.” you can measure beauty based on someone’s personality and the way someone treats you. My mother is the most beautiful person I know because not only does she care for people for a living she cares for her family her friends and anyone she meets. She has the biggest heart and she is always putting people before her which is something I admire.
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