Is Beauty What We See With Our Eyes or Feel With Our Hearts?
Who is the beholder that matters most?
The beauty industry and popular culture would have us all believe that beauty is skin deep and can be improved upon by striving to meet the ideals set for us. But whose ideals should we be following?
Beauty standards shift dependent on what country you are in, what era you are from, and what your belief system tells you is ‘good’.
Should you be buxom and curvy to demonstrate your wealth and ability to buy plenty of rich foods? Should you go under the knife to seek out the perfect nose, lips, or eyes? Should you be pale-skinned and bleach away the natural tones? Should you be athletic and have a sculpted torso or appear fragile and waif-like? At different times and in different places all of these have been desirable.
If by some lucky lottery draw you happen to meet the criteria of your time and place, what then, is that enough? Or will you carry the underlying and invisible anxiety that comes with knowing physical appearance doesn’t last?
I’m tired of all the nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That’s deep enough. What do you want — an adorable pancreas? Jean Kerr
It seems as though no matter what body you are born into you are also handed an…
