Beauty

Based on what is a person called beautiful?

The features of beauty differ from age to age. Beauty was associated with being plus-sized or big during the Renaissance period, since it reflected wealth. Looking pale was attractive during another era, since only the workers and farmers were tanned. Males felt ashamed if they had blonde hair or blue eyes at a time, since those features were considered "feminine"; unlike today when those exact two characteristics are considered eye-catching and charming.

What is beautiful today may not be beautiful in the future, because the world and people and thinking methods are constantly developing. People, however, feel the urge to live up to the beauty-standards of the century, and always will. It's even harder to fight this due to globalization and peer-pressure.

You don't have to be a size zero to be successful, and you don't have to have eyes as blue as the sky to be beautiful. Because beauty is being healthy. Beauty is living up to your morals, accomplishing something that would make you proud, and loving life. When we finally let go of the so-called beauty standards and focus on our personalities, on being healthy rather than looking like those Victoria's Secret models (what do those girls eat anyways?), that is when beauty will surround us. Ladybugs are beautiful, a little kids laugh is beautiful, books are beautiful. Because everything is beautiful. (Okay, maybe not everything. I'm not sure spiders were or will ever be considered beautiful).

The point is, it's all in our heads. And hearts. And maybe even our blogs! *hint hint*

And I just reached the end of this musing.

Speaking of beauty, I just learned that today is "National Tell A Girl She's Beautiful Day"! ♥

 J