Beauty

  I have often wondered, "What is beauty," or more specifically, "What is ugliness?" I never truly understood what people mean when they say that this person is "ugly," or that person is "beautiful." I understand the commonly perceived notion of beauty, effectively a healthy person with a decent muscle to body mass to height ratio, and that "ugliness" can be used to describe someone who has a noticeable physical "defect," but beyond that, should someone describe a person just with the terms ugly or beautiful, only someone who has very nearly the exact same definition of either word would be able to tell what that person is talking about. I, however, have a much looser idea of what beauty is, it is more that I judge beauty based on what I can tell about their personality.

  I actually once or twice asked people at my school what the word ugly means. The answers I received told me that I was probably asking the wrong people about it. I came to the conclusion after some discussions with my parents that the old saying "beauty is in the eye of the beholder," was true. In these eyes, beauty is an unimportant aspect to the overall person; a nice thing to have, but never anything to truly worry very much about. There are many people in fact who are not what people would refer to as beautiful, but are very successful in their careers. This is just my opinion however, and I can not say for certain that you will not find a way of refuting me.



  I would be more than willing to hear an argument against what I have stated, but it would have to be a reasonably strong one.