Beauty

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Unfortunately today the beholder is society, and society has distorted the true ideals of beauty. For thousands of years curvaceous woman were seen as being beautiful and most were highly revered. Even a decade ago women who were full figured were seen as the epitome of beauty, for example Marilyn Monroe; every woman wanted to be her, every man wanted to have her and she was no stick figure. Society today however tells women that they have to have tiny little waists and practically be skin and bone to be beautiful. I myself have fallen prey to this societal idea of beauty, and what is really sad is that even science is telling me that I am not ideal. My BMI range tells me that I am overweight and if you were to see me you would think I'm joking, but I'm not. Beauty is a funny thing, not in that it is laughable, but that it is so easily changeable. Great philosophers couldn't even settle on a definition of beauty, because beauty is a word not easily defined. What may be beautiful to me may not be beautiful to you. So who is to say that the women plastered on the billboards and on the cover of magazines are beautiful. Young girls starve themselves and practically kill themselves trying to live up to the standards of beauty society has set for them, and not just girls but boys as well. We have it so drilled into our heads that what society tells us is right, but that is not in the least bit true. Our "imperfections" are what make us human, we come in all shapes and sizes, all colors and sexual orientations. We say that nature is beautiful for its differences, one gem is just as beautiful as another even if it is not exactly the same, so why can't humans be that way. A curvaceous woman should be just as beautiful as a skinny woman, there is no "real" woman only actual women.

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