Monday, 21 September 2015

The desire to be beautiful

Man or woman, everyone desires to be beautiful. The mirror asserts our image as we grow up and slowly our self image takes a firm shape in our minds.This helps in creating our self esteem also.

You may have noticed that a child spends little time in front of the mirror,but as he grows older the time increases exponentially. Every girl or boy thinks of himself as the most desirable and beautiful person on earth...God's gift to the opposite sex. In some cases self love or narcissism sets in quite early and continues for a long long time.

Whatever be the case the desire to look beautiful is a very strong instinct and we spend both time and money to appear the best. An entire industry runs on this psychology which is exploited to the maximum. Strangely it has nothing to do with age or social strata.How others see us is perhaps equally important and relevant in seeing ourselves in our own eyes.

The only aspect which we tend to forget in this mad rush to be beautiful is the fact that we need to be beautiful from within. There are no cosmetics to do it for us. It's something which we need to work upon on our own. But the reward for it is tremendous; it complements our physical beauty and adds to our personality.

Cleopatra was supposed to be the most beautiful lady in the ancient world and so was Helen of Troy for whom a 10 year war was fought! But the essential difference between the two is cone stood for the bold,courageous and magnetic beauty while the other was the garden variety type. Both enamored, both brought massive destruction yet both remain examples even today of great beauty.

These two aspects of beauty certainly tell us that beauty really lies in the eyes of the beholder 

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