Beauty is Not Skin Deep

In today’s world, beauty is defined in so many different ways; from short hair to large rings around necks. Beauty has been one thing that has always been around from the beginning of time, it just differs from one culture to the next. We often place such importance on “being beautiful” that we tend to over look such small things like what actual beauty is. The old saying, “beauty is in the eye of the beholder” is more relevant then ever. People in our society go to such great lengths to make themselves beautiful that they often do not see what they possess and just want to be like the celebrities they see within the magazines or the internet.

Beauty is such a magnificent thing. It can make you feel like a prince or princess, it can make a bad day turn good and it has the power to make the sick feel whole again. It saddens me to think that people seem to gravitate towards the negative sides and often do not see the beauty within. It is always easy to say that I am not beautiful but to be beautiful is not just an aesthetic or visual thing.

Inner beauty is one of the most golden things any one person can possess. It cannot be taken away or classified as ugly. It is a feeling from within whether everyone sees it or not. It is easily the most gratifying emotion to have. In America, beauty is almost solely focused on the outside. How skinny you are, what you eat, the make up you wear, and the hair cut you have. These are all exterior, basic, almost primitive wants and needs. What happened to the simple things like; how healthy you are, you smart you may be, how personable you are? It is everything that actually means something to us and the thing that is most often not included into our everyday vocabulary and meaning of beauty.

The world would greatly benefit if we could get back to the fundamental meaning of beauty and hold onto what little bit we have left. It would do everyone so much good if we had a chance to travel the world and see how I every country, the meaning of beauty is different. We might finally come to a realization that beauty truly is “In the eye of the beholder”.