This is a well used phrase but not many people really believe it, which to me is a rather sad indictment of the way society has progressed or regressed. In many cultures beauty can mean very different things other than how you look like, but in many parts of the Western world it goes hand in hand with what celebrity is currently on top. It is no news to me about how celebrity obsessed we have become but to let them dictate to us what we should look like is not right.
Many celebrities today look malnourished and resemble stick insects rather than people, now why would anyone think that is beautiful. Trying to emulate one of these "stick insects" could lea to long term illnesses and organ failure- but they don't tell you that in the media!
If every young women aspired to look like theses so called celebrities, everyone will look the same, and they so often do. I can be walking down the street and see a line of girls that look the same with a teeny tiny waist, the same super slick hair, same handbags even the same style of clothes, it's as if they came from the same assembly line! What is great about looking the same as everyone else?
To me beauty is whatever you think it is, for example I think that Lake Como in Italy is stunning, while other people might just shrug it of as a pool of water, my point is everyone has or should have a different idea of beauty and these different ideas are part of what give us out identity. Identity is the unique characteristics that makes us who we are, now tell me...how can we be unique if we look like everyone else?
What makes you different is exactly what makes you beautiful, people need to learn to embrace their differences!
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