Definition Essay On Beauty

Beauty When a woman with a more appealing appearance crosses someone’s path, the most commonly used term to describe her is beautiful. Beauty, in fact, is a term that most will use to represent the most appealing aspects of a person’s outward appearance. While Merriam -Webster dictionary defines beauty as “the quality or aggregate of qualities in a person or thing that gives pleasure to the senses or pleasurably exalts the mind or spirit”, I believe there is more to beauty than Merriam-Webster’s definition. A person having beauty is more than a quality that others can see on someone—it is something they can hardly see in themselves. As Kahlil Gibran said, “beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.” The term beauty is derived from the two Latin terms bellus and bonus, meaning pretty and good. Early societies would use these terms to compliment or describe someone’s appearance or actions. The word beauty originally means pretty and good and in society now, people are allowed to dictate who could be refer to as beautiful. It is almost as if for centuries we have been told that if someone is exceptionally appealing in their physical features, that
they are beautiful. It is what we have been taught by society, but society should not have the right to control the number of people that see themselves as beautiful. I came from a family were having beauty meant dressing up in dresses or skirts, doing your hair, and doing your make up.
I was taught that having beauty was making yourself greater than those around you. To have beauty it meant that you had to be above everyone else, you had to stand out against a crowd. That wasn't something I was very good at. I had even gotten myself in trouble numerous times because I felt like I had beauty without making myself better than others. It got to the point where I was lectured and told that I would not be beautiful unless I dressed up and made myself beautiful. There were times that I wasn't allowed to leave the house unless I made myself beautiful the way I was taught. It was from living life this way that I realized beauty had nothing to do with someone's
appearance. The term beauty is more than just a word. It is more than an appearance. Beauty is something that is inside of yourself that makes you human. Having beauty does not mean making yourself better than others. Having beauty does not mean to pretending to be someone or something else besides you. To have beauty is to have the courage to be yourself regardless of what you've gone through. It's putting you as a whole on the same level as others, not a higher platform. It's almost as if when people dress themselves up to be beautiful everyone doing it is just making themselves look exactly the same. Being unique about who you are instead of trying to be someone else is what makes people beautiful, it's what gives people beauty.