Beauty is a concept. An idea that changes from person to person. We put on makeup, do our hair, paint our nails, and buy the latest clothes in an attempt to please those around us and conform to their idea of physical beauty. In this way, we often forget who we are and lose our inner beauty. Although many people focus on physical beauty, inner beauty is more important because it is permanent and is a representation of a person's true self. How many times have we heard or said the saying "don't judge a book by its cover", yet we focus much of our attention on our physical appearance. Every day we encounter images in the media that make us believe we have to look a certain way. Physical beauty is described as important and essential to finding love and acceptance. Although physical beauty is moderately important, it is inferior to inner beauty as it declines with age. Physical beauty is simply an illusion of who someone's true self is and is always noticed first. There are countless examples of beautiful people with beautiful bodies but at the same time terrible on the inside. When someone looks at a physically beautiful person, they often think of them as friendly and caring because their physical beauty conveys an illusion to others. Although physical beauty is an illusion, people are attracted to physically beautiful people. When someone we find attractive enters the room, we are attracted to them. However, this is only superficial because once you talk to a physically beautiful person and they are rude, unwelcoming and only concerned with their appearance, most people don't want to be around them. Some people are born naturally physically beautiful while others are not. so "lucky". This makes people look in the mirror... at the center of the card....... We often see the character of others and change to be like them. In this way we lose our inner beauty. We are not ourselves; we are a copy of someone else. Problems with inner beauty can arise and are seen every day. People try to act like someone else because they don't know how to be themselves. They hate the way they look and this makes them depressed. Learning who you are and accepting yourself is the only way to achieve inner beauty. Rather than not focusing on physical beauty at all, we should dedicate a moderate amount of time to ourselves and then focus much of our time on inner beauty. There must be a balance between external and internal beauty. Once we find balance, we can live our lives happily. However, although physical beauty is important, inner beauty is even more important because it is permanent and is a representation of a person's true self.
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