What do you define beauty as? An airbrushed woman in a magazine? Or a girl posing for myspace? Is it not all the same thing?... This may not be the biggest headlining topic today, but the truth is, is that it is out there. It is the judgment of our image.
Today in society, girls see the "image" they must fit and if they don't fall into that category, they are not beautiful. Most of you would argue this point with me, but you know it's true! Girls buying all the "latest trends" because they saw it in a magazine, cutting their hair just like a celebrity, and acting like people who they saw on television. All it is is girls looking for acceptance in this world. Someone to be and something to become.
Although these things may be inevitable, they can be changed. I understand times have changed and we live in a different culture than what we used to 50 years ago, but what happened to simplicity? A child who wakes up in the morning and only thinks about what picture they might draw in the mud, or how many times their rock can skip on the water and wakes up so excited that they forgot their shirt is on backwards. Are think too complex these days to just enjoy the rain without worrying how frizzy your hair is going to become or how dirty your new car will be?
I long for the days of true happiness and beauty, where girls can wake up in the morning, look at the mirror, and smile. We hide ourselves through materialistic things. There are 6,000 different brands of make-up, 5,000 different kinds of face treatments, and 2,000 different kinds of plastic surgery. This number continues to rise each year. Girls who wake up 2 hours early before they leave the house to pick out an outfit, put on their make-up, and make sure they look good, to only do what? "Look good?" Beauty is not what clothes we wear, the layers of make-up we have on, or just simply how we look, but rather the impact we make and how we see ourselves.
This might just be my opinion and something I find very out of place in society, but then again when i see a 5 year old looking like she is 21 and ready to go to a bar, I can't stop to think that something isn't quite right. I can't help but to believe that we have started something that we probably take back, and that is our beauty. Did we really get rid of judgment when girls started to wear make-up or did we just raise the bar? Is it really a necessity or just something to mask the pain inside? All this effort into our image, but yet more than 80% of the people you past by you may never see again. So what are we really trying to accomplish?
Not to add guilt trips to anyone, but what do you think of when you hear these statistics? "Women in the next year will spend over 2 billion dollars on make-up alone. The average cost to feed a starving child in another country for one year is 200 dollars." Do you find something worng with this picture?...
You hear statistics all the time, but do you really do anything about them? The rate of suicide each year has gone up. Most have been related to girls being picked on in school because they didn't "fit in." Again, do you find something wrong with this picture?...
Why do we hide behind masks of our image? Why not make a stand? Would you rather spend your whole life trying to add up to what this world says you need to be, or would you rather embrace your natural beauty and make a difference?
You may wonder why I used a lot of rhetorical questioning. I am not going to tell you the right or wrong answer to these questions (because there is no such concept) or try to persuade you, it is just rather something to think about and to know where you stand. There is no contract that we sign that goes with this life that we are given or a guideline of how to live, but that is when you make the choice. "What you do today, affects the outcome of tomorrow."
The choice is yours.
What do YOU define beauty as?...
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I would like to hear what you guys have to say. thank you.
-"Everything rides on faith somehow."