Nowadays there are many products which promise us perfect beauty. Fashion, dieting, or a surgery- today you have a very wide choice. But what is the real price we have to pay for beauty? Are there any advantages or disadvantages?
I think there are some important disadvantages to this struggle. At first the risk of bodily harm. There could be a very bad surgeon who makes a botched job and so maybe you’re totally disfigured after such a surgery. In my point of view I also recognize many psychological problems, for instance the “body distortion”. Today also many people suffer from diseases, for example anorexia or bulimia, because they want to be perfect and don’t know that they destroy their own body. In my opinion there’s only a short distinction between the “idea of being beautiful” and the “madness of beauty”.
But on the other hand there are also some important advantages to this struggle. At first the feeling of being accepted an integrated in our society. Fashion makes you feel more self-confident, therefore you’re also more relaxed, because you definitely know what not to wear. Disfigures like blemishes or scars…can be removed when you know what’s trendy. Fashion represents what you like or dislike and it shows also a little bit of your own individuality. In my opinion it’s very important how you look, because that’s what we see at first.
So all in all I think that everyone should do what he wants. In most case I like all people, no matter if they are fat or ugly-dressed. For me the character plays a central role, because only when someone wears a Nike T-shirt this doesn’t mean that he’s also a good friend. I personally believe that beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
