Your Idea of beauty

Beauty is what everyone in this world thrive for. Everyone has his/her own image of what a beautiful person looks like. What beauty means to you may not so be to others. To know beauty, one first has to define what beauty really means. Beauty of a person could be the way the person look, act and even the words they speak. However, in all different culture, the idea of beauty varies.

For Women, they have always been obsessed to achieve this perfect image of a figure that men wanted them to be. In North America, such images are heightened and fueled by the media, and by critics. In magazines, pictures of models and actresses dressing in all too little clothes posing in very revealing positions, the message is very clear to the young female generation of the world. Many times, when you ask a men what his perfect wife would be, you would get an answer much like this, small thin thigh, slim and tall body, big breast, blond hair and a beautiful face. Such answers are all too common in today's world. People want to look and act beautiful because they want to have the attention. Looks alone can get you through many hard curves of life, and because of this reason, many teenager girls will starve themselves to fit into this looks, and the fact is that they are doing this for someone who may never even talk to them. To the majority of people in North America, you can't be considered beautiful unless you have good physical appearances. Beautiful physical image is a subjective.

Beauty also can be defined as a person's character. To me, beauty isn't a thing, or even a person, but a feeling that comes from your soul. Such is the way when you get that warm and giggling feeling inside of you, that's beauty. Beauty is what makes your day go around, making you believe that everything is all right in the world, makes you smile every time when you see, hear or even sense it. It is what relaxes you after a hot day. Beauty in a person is not just external appearance, but also interior strength. Many times, I heard the phrase "beauty is only skin deep", now that I am actually doing an essay about it. That phrase begins to make sense to me. People judge others first by appearances, but ultimately, it is what inside of you that really count. Shakespeare's "my mistress's eyes are nothing like the sun" is a good example. His mistress is not defined as a beautiful woman physically, but is such a beautiful woman to him because of the soul matching between them. Another example can be the follow. A woman is neither physically appearing nor morally pleasing, but the other party finds they have lots in common just like a soul mate. In the person's eye, this ugly woman means beautiful.

However, through out the world, the ideas of beauty vary. I agree with the proverb "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." Different people have different taste when it comes to the idea of beauty. In America, beauty is defined in appearances; beautiful people have beautiful face. In ancient China, small feet are what make a woman desirable and in ancient Japan, the raw passion of samurai is beauty. In parts of Africa, women mutilate their face by wear big rings around their mouth and ears. To me, I would think they are ugly but in the eyes of African men, they are like goddesses, exotic beings. Which further prove my point of beauty varies with different people; just take a look around this world which we all share.

Everyone in the world has their own meaning, their own opinion of what beauty should be. What is beautiful depends on who the beholder is. To truly find beauty is not easy in a world where cosmetic and plastic surgeries are on the rise. Beauty is everywhere; women don't have to become the small thin long images they have been obsessed to achieve, because you are already beautiful in someone's eyes. "One man's trash is another man's treasure".