What is beautiful

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Every single day we stand in front of the mirror to look at ourselves. We look at our hair to see if it is neat, our clothes are in shape and that we are fit and have a fine build. We make sure that our appearance is perfect so we are good looking and beautiful. But the question is, what is beautiful, what does it mean to be beautiful and what does a beautiful person look like?, is there a single definition or not and the answer is definitely not. If you ask people to define what a beautiful looks like, everyone you ask will give you differing views to what they think a beautiful person looks like. Throughout history people have had different interpretations to what beautiful is, that is why there are different styles that people had and liked and even today we have different dress and styles across different cultures around the world and the way they want to make themselves look.

The way we perceive beautiful may be ugly to those before and may be generations after us, yet we cry when we do not look a specific way and feel that we are ugly and unwanted. However, the only definition for beauty is that it is in the eye of the looker, meaning that one person’s beautiful is another’s ugly and another’s ugly is one’s beauty. People who are declared the most beautiful in the world or win beauty competitions are not necessarily the most beautiful but are in the eyes of the one who judged them. They saw that person beautiful but it is not that everyone agrees, we may saw, how can that person be called beautiful when they don’t look like it. That is why the only thing beautiful is what we want it to be and what we see it as, nothing else.
However, there is one type of beauty that we do agree on and that is possessing a beautiful soul. We all want to be with someone we can get along with and can be the best of people, friends, colleagues to us. That beauty is the beauty of good character and respecting those around us, being beautiful is no good if people hate you and why do they hate you?, because your character and dealings with others are bad. You are not going to be remembered for being beautiful, you are going to be remembered for the things you have done and that is done by having a beautiful soul. 

Let’s face it, as we embrace a new year in our lives, our faces begin to age, are hair loses it attractive colour and becomes dull grey and our bodies weaken, physical beauty will disappear as you are only physically attractive for a short time. However, a beautiful soul never ages and remains young and desirable, we want to be loved and respected and we know a person with a beautiful heart can give this to us. So why are depressing ourselves to attain the fading when we can work towards the what lasts, you are not given a job because of your appearance but for why you behave around others and can work with them. The same goes for the sports team your part of, a team project and so much more.


The aim is why do we try to create a fake meaning for something we can’t and reject what already has meaning, everywhere and everyone only accepts you for the inner you, directly or indirectly. We all want to be respected and treated properly and only a beautiful heart can do this. So stop wasting time on the fading and work for what really gives you recognition, people will always remember the things you did for them so leave a beautiful mark on those around you.   

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