The strive for beauty

 We all strive to be considered beautiful, but what does it mean to be beautiful? According to our society beauty is derived strictly from ones physical appearance. But who decides what is commonly considered beautiful? And why have they chosen such a incredibly unatainable level of beauty?

The people who have set up the ideal image of what society considers beautiful are the ones who have the greatest investment in it, I am speaking of course of those in the beauty supply business. These people purposly use a group of people who are not only very attractive but then use computers and make up to make them perfect. By berading us with these images of perfect people we start to believe that this is considered normal, which means when we don't meet this level of beauty we attempt to use any avenue we can to attain this goal.

Now thanks to the acceptance of plastic surgery by the general population this desire to become beautiful has taken on a more desperate turn. We have been trained to believe that beauty leads to success, this means for women that having large breasts will help them find a mate or be successful socially. So why should you be forced to live with the body you were given when you can just get a larger pair of breasts. These kinds of surgery’s known as cosmetic surgery’s have had a dramatic rise in recent years. In fact the five most common surgery’s are breast augmentation, liposuction,m eye lid surgery, abdominoplasty, and breast augmentation. You notice that none of these tend to focus on those who have been injured in an accident, they are in fact focusing on just people trying to look more like the norm and I personally find this very sad. Rather than see what good attributes people have, they will look at the negative ones and focus on only them.

Though I do believe that we should all try to look the best we can, by giving people what is basically an easy way out a person is more likely to take the surgery rather than attempt to change somethingt as simple as your cloths or your hair style. My self personally had many personal image issues growing up, but rather than feel sorry for myself I decided to change things about myself. I researched what kind of hairstyles complemented my face shape, I wore clothes that complemented by body shape, I grew a little bit of a beard to hide my baby face and asymmetrical jaw. By changing these things I was able to take what positive traits I had and amplify them, thus making me more attractive to the opposite sex. All without dangerous procedures or pooisons.