Monday, July 31, 2006

Beauty myth

Today in our crisis lecture, my lecturer instead of telling us how to manage crisis, he told us about a crisis which is happening in Malaysia right now. Which is the beauty myth.
Beauty Myth is a book written by Naiomi Woolf.
What does Beauty means to you? According to ww.dictionary.com , Beauy is define as "the quality that gives pleasure to the mind or senses and is associated with such properties as harmony of form or color, excellence of artistry, truthfulness, and originality."
I guess its safe to say that its an ecstasy feeling which one has when one view another person or object etc.
But how do you measure beauty?How can you say that one is beautiful to this extent and the other is not?
Funny, our world right now i teaching us to be beautiful and too look at the contextual of who people are. you can see in Tv, Movies and even advertisement, that you have to be pretty with this figure to be called a beauty. song lyrics sings about people wanting to have Angelina 's lips, Jennifer Lopezs figure and Jessica Alba's sexsiness.
Is that what you want your next generation to see themselves? the context and not the contentual?
People nowadays are so conformed into being beautiful that they would go to the extent of starving themselves to be skinny, to have that beautiful figure, women would rather spent millions and thousand of money to do plastic surgery. in the end does this starvation, plastic surgery and torture to your body makes you beautiful? Is it worth it?
I believe that everyone is beautiful! Why?:Because you are specially made, by God's own hands, each of you.Yes! i mean YOU are made in God's image. I believe that everytime God finish making one person, He would look at you with those proud eyes and say that you are my precious.
Therefore all of us ARE beautiful and we should focus on the inside of a person than the outside. We should be contentual than contextual!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Beauty Beauty & Beauty. The reason why girls always want to be beautiful is due to wanna attract men. Agree?? Else why a girl spent so much of money to make up? This is a big question mark.....

Elaine Tan said...

hey!Not all girls want to make up to attract guys!
Sometimes by making up, it can boost a girl's confidence. When you know that you look good, you will feel confident when you go out...
Not everything is about guys you know