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                                                                           Beauty

"Check out her smile!"

"Did you not see her body?"

"What is a body without a smile?"

John's first glance at a woman, is her body. He has no additional interest in how the woman walks, talks, smiles, flips her hair, anything that doesn't have to do with the inner her.

"Is he wrong for that?"
"Is it wrong to view that as true beauty?"

Beauty can be seen in many various ways. Viewing a human's beauty, can be seen in countless ways. A man, or woman, who isn't fit to be a model on the front page of Women and Men's Health magazine is seen as "not good enough"

John walks around with his pants below is waste because his "love handles" restrict how high his pants can go. Classmates of John walk by him making comments calling him, fat, ugly, disgusting, even and eye sore. He has been taught that having a good body is quintessential to being attractive or beautiful.

Beauty is defined in society in countless magazines, books, TV shows, commercials, it can be found almost anywhere you look. What is beauty really? In society, it has been pushed us as normal people to believe beauty is everything on the outside, the first things people see when they lay eyes on you.

Why is it seen like that? We don't have people on the front page of magazines posing while eating ice cream and weighing hundreds of pounds saying, "this is what you should look like!" This is what people with happy lives look like. Instead we have skinny, in shape, "beautiful" people posing in sexy or revealing clothing, with lots of brightening makeup, including; lip gloss, lipstick, foundation and countless others. Is this what we truly see as beauty or is this what society has made us believe beauty is?

"Would you like to donate anything to St. Jude's Hospital today?"

Walking down the street, anywhere you go, you could meet three different people and ask them for a donation for a good cause. The first woman you meet is a heavy set, average looking woman. When asked her to donate money to St. Jude's, she has no objection and says "absolutely but this is all I have on me." You politely say "anything and everything will help, thank you." She smiles at you and walks away. Do you see that as true beauty?

 The second person that you come in contact with is a tall, dark, athletically built man. You go to him and ask, "would you like to donate to St. Jude's today?" His response is " I would love to but, I only have a twenty, so I don't want to give it all." You politely respond "thank you for you time and have a wonderful day" and he walks away. Ten minutes go by and you see the same man walking your way with a coffee in hand and he gives you a five dollar bill without saying anything. He smiles and walks away. By going out of his way just to break that twenty to donate money, is that considered more beautiful then the first woman, who gave all she had?

The third person who came by is an elderly man, who is walking down the sidewalk with a hunched back, and a cane in his right hand with a slight limp. You ask "would you like to donate to St. Jude's today?" He responds in a quiet, raspy, broken voice "I don't have any money to give you right now, but i'm a retired pastor and I will say a few extra prayers just for the children at St. Jude's." Is praying more beautiful then giving you all they have, or going out of their way to bring you back money just for the cause?

Beauty is looked at in many different ways, inside and out. It can be described at how you look, whether that may be obese, petite, shorts, tall, handsome, ugly, red head with freckles or blonde with rosy red cheeks. It can also be described as looking past the obvious features of a person and seeing them for who they are inside. That could be joyfulness, hatred, shyness, caring, irresponsible and the list goes on. Who are you to judge a single person on their beauty? You can't rely on society, you, yourself have to decide what is beautiful to you, and not to anyone else. That's what really makes a person beautiful.