We live in a world where beauty is not within the mind, but instead is dependent on the body. Our judgements are instinctively based on the physical attraction towards another being, despite our lack of knowledge about them.

 

The young teenage minds have been warped into believing what is said to be ‘perfection’. Little do they know, this is false beauty. It is manipulated faces, hair, bodies that fix the buried insecurities into innocent minds. We are not born with the intention to look a certain way, dress a certain way. As free roaming children we had the willingness to dress and look the way we wanted. So why do we stop?

 

Society has evolved to portray only certain matters to be admired and thrived for, yet we have not realised the power within ourselves. We as a generation are too focused on how flat our stomachs are, how up to date our outfit is, therefore we fail to realise what the human body truly is. A work of art. We forget to thank it for keeping us alive, even if we treat it badly. Our heart pumps liquid ruby around our body, and our ribs protect that. However, we just don’t care.  We only care for what’s on the outside. The human brain is the most complex design in this known Universe, and we waste it on eternal fear of not being good enough.

 

Social media subconsciously weaves a wall of insults into vulnerable minds. World-wide trends that create stereotypes of what ‘ugly’ is. No one knows what ‘ugly’ is. There is simply no such thing.

 

Each individual is a unique creation, and here we are in our so-called ‘equal society’ still judging each other by their skin colour or nose shape.

 

People are enticed to change their appearance in order to be accepted on the internet. Their profile pictures are simply a self-portrait of their desire to be a different person. That is not beauty. Beauty is the mind, the way your mind works. Beauty is the differences in personalities, the way someone cares for another, the emotions exchanged between loved ones. It is helping someone in need, helping the planet, the day you achieve your life long aspirations.

 

The alleged idea of perfection is drowning our minds in disbelief as to why we were placed on this Earth in the first place. Millions of people damage their bodies as punishment for not being someone else’s idea of beautiful. Does this help anything? No. Does it make people feel better? Yes. Though that doesn’t mean to say we should just let it happen. Selfish.

 

We are precious and fragile animals, the slightest change in society, lifestyle and environment can affect us immensely. And that’s what is beautiful. Our entire being.