Beautiful

Just something that is pleasing.

Beautiful: pleasing the senses or mind aesthetically

Of course everyone has their own eyes,ears and mind so beauty should therefore be different to everybody. Yet, almost everybody happens to find the same things beautiful, like sunsets and rainbows. That's where the beauty standard to come into place. This standard of beauty does very region to region, yet within those regions manages to pervade the mind of every individual within. Pictures and ideals are shoved, sometimes just placed, into our everyday lives and we fully accept them. Everyone else does and we are apart of everyone so therefore we do too. How could everyone be wrong? Naturally there are the "rebels" among us who chose to be independent and use their own eyes, but that's just weird.

So why does beauty beauty matter? 

The very being of beauty saves national parks, creates jobs, and sells products. It exists and we have made use of this very interesting and alluring feeling that is beauty. 

So what happens to that which aren't beautiful? Who saves those that aren't beautiful? What job do they get? How do you sell that product?

These are the easy questions because everyone would save another person/nature, there are other jobs, and products don't always have to be beautiful.

So what else is there?

"Toni Morrison in the novel The Bluest Eye asserts that systemic racism results in unappreciated beauty and “psychological murder.” Morrison supports her assertions by illustrating a tragic anecdote of racial beauty standards and uses a young, vulnerable African American girl, Pecola Breedlove, to show how one can slowly accept illogical hate. The author’s purpose is to explain how readers should be “move[d]” to question their own morality in order to challenge the existing standards of beauty, assimilating black culture into western traditions.  The author writes in a conversational yet aggressive tone for those who are racially privileged." -5th Hour Ms. Valentino's Class

In truth beauty is much too complex to ask about with a couple of questions. It intertwines with all of life and changes the views, maybe even the hearts, of society. The Bluest Eye shows a young girl, Claudia, who leads an "ugly" life, who feels unappreciated and not as pretty as a white girl. What makes something Beautiful can either save it, or destroy it.