Being beautiful means ______

Date: October 26, 2021
Writer: AlpaCron

To my fellow readers on this platform, I wish you a pleasant evening! 

Guys, how was your day? Have you had a productive day today? Well, if you ask me, I think I had a productive day today because I was able to publish two blog entries.

Anyway,I'd like to share with you the responsesof my friends to the question,"What does being beautiful mean to you?" After seeing the soap opera "Lavida Lena," I was able to come up with this idea in my head. Just to give you a quick rundown, it's a Philippine television drama vengaeance series aired on Kapamilya Channel.

Madgalena also known as "Magda," was born with a huge scar on her face. Although she had a good heart however, she is being discriminated because of her physical appearance, telling her she is a "shrimp;" (a form of discrimination) when you eat a shrimp you only eat the body and just discard the head. Likewise she is being discriminated because her scar on her face looks like candle tears.

You can watch this series on Netlfix!

Question:

"What does being beautiful mean to you?

Friend 1

"If I were to define what beautiful or being beautiful is, I think it is when someone's not trying hard enough to be one. Like it should simply just by being beautiful enough in her own little ways and how she can transcend it to the people around her with a heart full of pure intentions. Sometimes people tend to define beautiful or being beautiful when you passed their standards of what beauty is and actually forget that being different is likewise beautiful."

"People have already been brainwashed thatbeingattractive is defined by being white, perfect, tall, modest, and the etc. Now, Ive learned that being beautiful matters most on how you bring yourself in and out. Also, having that genuine heart to see good in people even if there will be times that they would hurt you or worse, betray and leave you."

Friend 2

"Being beautiful is being able to do small things with great love. It doesn't need to have something to do always with how you look but how you express beauty instead and that is by doing things with love which always end up beautifully."

Friend 3

"When a person knows that he/she is imperfect but still is proud of him/herself. When a person chooses to be kind no matter how harsh the world has become to him/her. When a person never envy to the society's standard of beauty. When a person has a pure heart and a sound mind. That is how I know that a person is beautiful."

Friend 4

Being beautiful to me is similar to staring at an abstract (art), it doesn't need to be defined but rather, it is the people that defines it and find its beauty. Hence, if a person is truly beautiful, one can see it not only on its physique but in its essence, existence and meaning to one's life."

Friend 5

"My own definition of "beautiful" is the one who's got a clear, perfect skin, nice hair, glowing eyes, good set of teeth, a not-so-thin body just average, and the one who's smart. But aside from eberything i have mentioned, nobody more beautiful than the one who is kind and compassionate to other beings."

Closing thought 💛

According to their responses, the majority of them believe that being beautiful entails having an authentic heart and I agree to them because having an attractive face is useless if you have a cruel heart; a heart that's full of hate and jealousy. I do believe that in order for you to become holistically beautiful, it is essential that you are beautiful inside and out. Believe me when I tell you that each of us is attractive in our own way. What we lack is the self-assurance and belief that we are beautiful. Don't ever think you're ugly since the only thingthat's ugly are the social constructs of society.

On one hand, for me, being beautiful means being able to empathize others. You will see the beauty of that person if he/she knows how to put themselves in other people's shoes.

Thanks fo dropping by! Hope your safe and healthy 😘💕