On Beauty and Perfection

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, not to sound cliché. Every person has something about them that makes him or her beautiful, be it a physical attribute or a personality trait. There is something that makes everyone special, unique, beautiful, and perfect to someone out there in this vast world. Beauty and perfection are two of the hardest things to define in this world, and maybe they are just man-made constructs that we have clung on to and perpetuated.

In the U.S. we as a society have let celebrity and media define what “everyone” as a whole should view as attractive… but photoshop and the latest diet craze only go so far, or too far. Our life experiences also judge what we deem to be perfection and beauty; it cultural, societal, and regional. The perspective of beauty is vastly different between Hollywood and Kenya.

When it comes to our own idea of whether we think we are beautiful, we can decide to change what we don’t like about ourselves. It is when we let other people make us feel insecure, ugly, and imperfect then that decision isn’t for our own piece of mind but to appease others. People have the right to physically augment their appearance; be it through diet, change of wardrobe, piercings, tattoos, or surgery. There is nothing wrong with people wanting to improve their self worth, self image, and quality of life.