BeAuTy

The other day I saw this video for the first time and it pretty much blew my mind.  I mean, we all know how fake magazine pictures are and how airbrushed chicks are in the movies but this short video really brought those ideas to life.  Comparing yourself to so-called perfection is a pretty dangerous game.  Demi-gods and goddesses show up everyday in our lives on the covers of magazines, gigantic billboards, and on our favorite sitcom.  Are there really people out there who never get a blemish?  Or have completely styled and coiffed hair, all the time?  Welcome to the real world folks and it’s, I would argue, prettier.  What if we looked up to authentic, real looking women who didn’t look like they had plastic faces.  And dudes, what if you worshipped chicks that had normal chest sizes and only wore heels, say, once a month.  I think that we do and it is more of an underlying issue that I am approaching here.  We all have those people in our lives that we think are beautiful or good looking because of various reasons.  Our friend who is ridiculously funny; Our significant other who knows exactly what to say to make us feel better; our Mother or Father (or both!) who we look up to because they are strong and have faced tough situations.  When we really think about beauty in our lives, I don’t think commercial beauty is the first thing that comes to mind.  We may appreciate perfection and enjoy looking at it in our monthly Cosmo, but we know true beauty when we see it.

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