Beauty means different things to different people- but regardless of that- such high value is placed upon it. Everyone judges people based on their looks. It happens every single day. I'm guilty of it, you're guilty of it; we all are.
What so many people forget is that it's only temporary. We all age. We all get old. And we all lose many of the attributes that society calls beautiful.
People try to slow it with products and surgery, but why? Getting older is part of life and inevitable. Why not do it with a little dignity? What happened to growing old gracefully?
I recently watched a documentary called "Advanced Style". It seemed to address the fact that fashion is overly preoccupied with youth. The maker of the film is also a photographer and blogger (the blog has the same title, if you want to go and look), who takes modelling photos of women over 55 years of age. It demonstrated clearly that you don't have to be young to have a sense of style or be fashionable. It really brought home to me even more how utterly meaningless the current perception of beauty is. Physically, their best years were behind these women, but they replaced that with something else; A pervading and irresistible individuality; that is ageless.
If you fell in love with someone purely because of their looks, it's probably not going to last, unless you find something else in them to love.
Beautiful or not, we all get old and eventually die. People would do well to remember that nobody makes a good looking corpse. Harsh? Probably. Definitely true.
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