Beauty

Face to Face: What is considered beautiful? What is it that makes a person beautiful?

 

 

Maia Orfanedes

As the saying goes, true beauty comes from within. People often notice external beauty before seeing the content of someone’s character, but a person’s personality says a lot about who they are. Of course, everyone considers good looks or a pretty face, but that isn’t what determines whether or not someone is beautiful. A kind heart and a good sense of humor are both traits that help make up a person’s inner beauty.

 

Everything and everyone has something beautiful about them. Flowers are beautiful, because they blossom and bloom in the spring. Birds are beautiful because they chirp and sing happy songs. Everything is beautiful when you look at what is on the inside and not what is on the outside. Sometimes the things you can’t see are prettier than the things you can. A person’s beauty is deeper than what you can see, it comes from within.

By Ms. Vandeventer

Being beautiful in the most meaningful sense is something that springs from beneath the surface of the skin. While it is true that physical features can be beautiful, most will discover through the passage of time that looks fade. What the passage of years can not touch, however, is the continuous action of BEING beautiful. Physical beauty pales in comparison to lives lived for others, the gentle touch of a mother’s hand, a young person’s zeal for life, honesty, integrity, or generosity. Being beautiful involves choices that are made each day. These choices over time become the fabric of a person’s character, and it is a person’s character that makes him either beautiful or ugly. When values and morals are allowed to guide as choices are made, beauty is created for others, and inner beauty radiates from within . Without this inner illumination, physical beauty is shallow and meaningless.

Truly beautiful human beings are not perfect human beings. There is no such thing. They are genuine and true to their beliefs, and they do good things for the right reasons, not for their own vanity. Their hands do not hold mirrors for admiration of themselves, but instead are often extended to those around them. They smile not because that looks best in photographs, but because they delight in the happiness of others…and when other people are BEING beautiful, too.