Is exterior beauty a must to survive in this world?

Everybody is beautiful in their own way. Sometimes it isn’t so visible so others just never give a chance to those; they just judge them before really knowing them. Exterior beauty might be a good way to start for some, though it shouldn’t.

I am growing up, each time realizing things I never realized before. Everything would be easier if we had kids’ minds. What matters for them is having fun, nothing else, that is their must. Do we really look at ourselves in the mirror? Maybe we do, but just at the physical looks. Do we even realize about how we feel, or even worse, how do we make others feel? You might be looking at a mirror, but possibly not at the right one.

 “It's beauty that captures your attention; personality which captures your heart.”

Every single day since the last couple of months, I feel as if nothing else mattered but the way we look. Teenagers are struggling through disorders just by looking at a magazine and trying to look like the girls in the cover. Not many care about knowledge and studies, and would rather not know anything about it to look better.

Whenever I think about this question I go back in time to when I was in kindergarten. I used to watch the beauty and the beast over and over again. I wish that arrogant and egocentric people, just like the prince in the first part of the movie, were all transformed into beasts to understand that not everything is the looks, but that only happens in fairy tales, in this world we have to realize everything on our own, or what would be worse, by someone else.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.”  - Oscar Wilde.

Oscar Wilde was a writer who criticized everyone, even himself and the society he lived in. His books reflect his craziness but you could tell that he knew far more than everyone else in that time. That didn’t mean he was right in everything but he could understand everything, or at least the most common mistakes or actions that a man does during his life.

Why do we still struggle to reach to the answer? Why do people still try to be beautiful when they already are?

Beauty seems a must in this world, but it is really not one. The one who only cares about how good someone else looks, doesn’t really care about nothing else other than that.

“People like people who look good .Anyone who says otherwise is either dumb or ugly.” – Beastly

I heard that quote on a movie some days ago… I couldn’t understand how there are actually people who think that and totally agree with it. Later on I heard this one:

“I am substance over style.”-Beastly

That is what people who don’t judge with their eyes say, the ones who choose soul before looks.

There was a myth I read weeks ago for a class, in which a man pulled of his eyes from his face since he couldn’t realize that he had killed his father and married his own mother.

I am starting to have my doubts about sight. It might reflect perfectly what is happening but careful, because not everything is what it seems. Sight can reflect how PRETTY a person is, but never how BEAUTIFUL he/she is. In that sense blinds have an advantage, they don’t see beauty but they feel it.

By: Lucia Miri  Echavarria