Lately I’ve been confused on what is considered beautiful to a lot of people and why do people kill themselves to look better to impress others.
According to dictionary.com, beautiful is defined “having beauty; having qualities that give great pleasure or satisfaction to see, hear, think about, etc; delighting the sense or mind.”
If “having qualities that give great pleasure or satisfaction to see, hear, think about, etc” isn’t a straight forward answer I don’t know what is. To me this means you have to consider many factors instead of just one. They say beauty is in the eye of beholder but is it really? You can only look at something for so long before it is no longer beautiful and if you are basing beauty off of looks then there are a million things wrong with that. It may be 1 factor but should not be the only factor you consider. What brings out a person’s true beauty is really what’s in thier heart and how they come off. Like Kanye West said “The prettiest people do the ugliest things.”
When you start to let others determine if YOU ARE beautiful then that’s a big problem. One example of this is when one person says something about someone else. A lot of people are becoming more self-concise of their appearance and looking for people’s approval. The only approval you need is from yourself to know that you are a very beautiful person. Love yourself; stop caring what others think about you.
Beauty is how you feel inside and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical. ~ Sophia Loren
The media has a strong influence on peoples perception of beauty. Magazines, Music, and various other social mediums constantly rate and show what is beautiful and what is not. They constantly pass judgment. Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder but sometimes with an influence from others….
@Jenny, and that's where the issue lies. Media portrays beauty in a physical sense more than it does in a "soul"ful sense. The media tells you how to be pretty and sexy, but not beautiful. Although the idea of beauty is very relative, beauty is a person in their entirety. The issue is, that people don't realize. So they focus more on working on themselves in an exterior sense, rather than working on themselves as a whole.
Agreed 99%. Deep, uninhibited love causes visual beauty to never fail. So that face you see everyday stays amazing every second.
I would have to agree . . .people always care about what others think. This world is backwards, who cares what people think? Just be yourself and live life i think
@ Zoe: Very true I would agree because beauty is not only skin deep. Beauty should be more than just physical but that is not depicted as often as it needs to be. Consequently, peoples perception of beauty are only one dimensional…
I would have to agree with you guys. The media directs everything we do so people tend to follow what everyone else is following.
There's nothing wrong with cultivating outer beauty, after all it's the first thing we all see. But it should be cultivated alongside inner beauty.