Okay, before I get into this my inspiration came from the video below! Go ahead and watch it because Kristen (the girl in the video) made some valid points. It's also pretty uplifting if you're feeling down.
Beauty is important. I'm not sure if we were born to think that, or throughout history society molded the status of 'beauty' and 'ugly'. This phenomenon gets stuck in our heads and it forces a lot of people to feel less confident about themselves. Those two words hold a power, that can increase or decrease a person's self esteem in seconds. Isn't that crazy?!
Words are only symbols; the meaning behind words are what make people feel this way.
My question is, when and how did someone decide who was ugly and who was beautiful? And how did it become so important to most people?
Personally, I think the human race is ugly. Just think about this scientifically for a second. We are skeletons, and inside those skeletons are bloody organs and covering the skeleton is one big pink organ that changes color due to sun rays. Our legs and arms are just skin, muscle and bone growing in a different direction than the rest of our body. And our hair is dead skin cells.
Nothing in that description matches the definition of 'beauty'.
Now, take what I just described and think about why some people are considered (or consider themselves) ugly. We are all initially the same ugly being, we just cover up the weird fleshy body in different ways. We dress it with 'cool' clothes, or cover it in makeup. Some of us hope our personality is enough. For some reason society decided that how people cover up their ugly is what makes them beautiful. That could be okay, but people felt the need to take this 'covering up the human ugly' to the next level. Some people decided that certain people can cover up correctly and other people do it wrong.
Being fat verses thin and short verses tall are the main contrasts between the ugly and beautiful phenomenon. To me, that doesn't make sense. If we all are 'ugly' why does it matter that we cover it up in our own personal ways?
We are all ugly. We all want to look acceptable in society’s eyes.
There doesn't need to be a right and wrong way to do that.
