Beauty

Beauty is in the eye of the BEER - holder ?


It intrigues me as to why people have this common perception

that they are expected to look a certain way in order to "fit in" with society.

We all would really love to believe this quaint saying,

"beauty is in the eye of the beholder"

but how true is that phrase when the beholder has been brainwashed,

so to speak,

into subscribing to the belief that beauty is the artificial look we see on glamour mags or in TV ?

For some time now,

that image has consisted mainly of white voluptious women

or

half naked sweaty glistering tanned caucasion men and

eventually,

set the "white standard of beauty".

We also know that symmetry is inherently attractive to the human eye.

So a package (the whole body) can seem beautiful simply because of the similarity between its left and right sides.

But i guess,

it all comes down to how one feels inside about themselves.

Unfortunately,

there is the viscous cycle of doubt that people constantly face

so it's often hard to reconcile your inner voices with the outside images thrown at you everyday.

Many would buy into the trends and fashions that dictate beauty.

Female femininity and morbid beauty became formulaic due

to all the TV shows abound with images of heavenly-looking models.

Fitness clubs persuade people to join not so they will lower their risk of heart disease

but so they will aspire to be beautiful on the outside.

No one sell things that will help them on the inside.

Wait..using 'no one' is probably an exaggeration.

Maybe..not many people even attempt to.

In the end,

you can look at all of this and

say that there will always be standards of beauty

and those who aspire to live up those standards

and those wanting to make a profit off those standards.

The media portrays what people want to see and

apparently,

it's sex and "beauty".

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder ?

It depends.

But i still choose to believe

"A thing of beauty is a joy forever"

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