What is Beauty?

What is beauty? Beauty is an often under looked simple six-lettered word with a several meanings.

To some, it is how someone looks on the outside. The media (television, magazines, etcetera) cares more about how ‘beautiful’ people are on the outside than on the inside. If a man helps an old lady across the road, do you think the news will include it in its prime time news update? On the other hand, if a celebrity supermodel had helped an old man across the road, the magazine would probably have a headline which reads ‘hot model is kind too!’.

To others, it is how someone is on the inside. This is the more important side of beauty. If someone looks very nice on the outside ;), but is really …… how should I put this…… empty on the inside, then the person is really not worth knowing. If you have someone who is ‘empty’ as a friend, it is quite useless as there is nothing to discuss. It is more important side to have inner beauty than to have external beauty because we are our actions and if we look down on others it wouldn’t matter if we are stylish or not. We would just be ugly on the inside.

Also, beauty is classified differently for every person. For example, when a person sees a tree that towers over all the rest in a forest, he might say that it is a beautiful thing in nature. However, a different person might say that the tree is just a tree and there is nothing beautiful about it. This is because they each have different views of the tree. The tree can refer to anything; from soccer to computers; some love them while others think they are useless. One person might say, “What good is kicking a ball around a field for ninety minutes?” However a soccer fanatic would say, “Soccer is a brilliant game that requires strategy and power.”

Beauty also depends on your state of mind. If you see a painstakingly hand-crafted vase and you have just won an all-expenses-paid trip to Italy, you will most likely say that it is beautiful. In fact, you might just say that everything you come across is beautiful, right down to the disgusting looking clump of something on your plate that your canteen calls ‘beautiful special-of-the-day’. If you had just failed all your tests, you would have definitely screamed that the vase was the ugliest thing that you had ever seen and that you would rather eat that disgusting looking clump on your plate than buy it at a bargain sale at 99% off.

Imagine if you had just been awarded $10000000. Wouldn’t you say that life was beautiful? But what if that money had been inherited from your parents because they died of a terrible accident when they were only 60 and 55 years of age? It would be likely that you would say that life sucks.

In conclusion, beauty is not what the magazine says in its 100-beauty tips issue, it is what we make of ourselves. Everyone has a different perspective of beauty; you just have to find your own.