My Idea of Beauty
My Idea Of Beauty More often than expected we are all told to be a certain way. We need to look a certain way and behave a certain way to fit into these predecided standards of our society, in so many aspects of life and in ways that sometimes feel outrageous.I wonder where these notions have originated from and when we all became so used to these beliefs. Just a few days back I got really upset because somebody I know said something not so good about how I look and now looking back at that incident I do not know why I reacted the way I did. Maybe in my mind, I think of myself as this strong woman who is not affected by such trivial issues which perhaps I am not. And then I also muse on the fact that this is all a consequence of how we all grew up always giving importance to external beauty much more than we give to other things which do hold a lot more importance. And it's become kind of a cool thing to say that "looks don't matter to me" but do we really mean it wh...