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Essay / Physical beauty versus inner beauty - 728
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 effort to please those around us and conform to their idea of physical beauty. By doing this, 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 represents a person's true self. How many times have we heard or said the clique "don't judge a book by its cover", and yet focus much of our attention on our physical appearance. Every day we encounter images in the media that make us believe that we must adopt a certain appearance. Physical beauty is described as important and essential to finding love and acceptance. Although physical beauty is moderately important, it is less important than inner beauty because it diminishes with age. Physical beauty is just an illusion of a person's true personality and is always noticed first. There are countless examples of beautiful people with nice bodies and yet a terrible person inside. When someone looks at a physically beautiful person, they often view them as friendly and caring because their physical beauty gives an illusion to others. Although physical beauty is an illusion, people are attracted to physically beautiful people. When someone we think is attractive walks into the room, we are drawn to them. However, this is only superficial because once you talk to a physically beautiful person and they are mean, unwelcoming and only care about their appearance, most people don't want to be around them. Some people are born naturally physically beautiful while others are not. therefore “lucky”. This makes people look in the mirror... middle of paper ....... We often see the character of others and change to be like them. By doing this, we lose our own inner beauty. We are not ourselves; we are a copy of someone else. Problems can arise with inner beauty and they 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 it makes them depressed. Learning who you are and accepting yourself is the only path to inner beauty. Rather than not focusing completely on physical beauty, we should spend moderate time on it and then devote a large portion of our time to 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 more important because it is permanent and represents a person's true personality..