Beauty

" The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched,

They must be felt with the Heart"

~ Helen Keller

What is beauty?

It can be classified in different ways based on person speaking about it. According to dictionary meaning of beauty is combination of qualities, such as shape, colour, or form that pleases the aesthetic senses, especially the sight. But I'm sorry to say our society has modified the meaning of beauty to complexion of skin only. Beauty means a fight of complexion. Level of beauty depends on whiteness of your skin, the lighter your skin tone is the higher your level will be. But at the same time if you are albino then you are out of the race. This is the contradiction that happens most often in our society.

" People are like stained-glass windows,

They sparkle and shine when the sun is out,

but when the darkness sets in,

their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within "

~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross 

What are the measuring criteria?
Their is no actual measurement criteria that is followed. It purely depends on viewers eyes and their measuring criteria. So never judge yourself by others eye, you alone know yourself best. To be Beautiful means to be Yourself, you don't need to be accepted by others, you need to accept yourself. You are aware of your strength and flaws. We were all created by Supreme power and you can't be designed any better than you are now. I believe all living things are beautiful irrespective of colour and shape. Beauty comes from within not external appearance only. External appearance might attract for sometime but fades away with time, what actually can hold people's attention is beauty of your inner self, your heart, your thoughts, in short your Character. Don't run to be beautiful for something temporary as looks, be beautiful for something deep inside you that's your soul. Develop an ability that can make others smile even in their hard times that's real form of being beautiful...

"The beauty of a woman is not the clothes she wears,

the figure she carries, 

or the way she combs her hairs.

The beauty of a woman is seen in her eyes, 

because that is the doorway to her heart,

the place were love resides"

~ Audrey Hepburn

Do we see the real beauty?
Have a thought do we really see the real beauty of a person or we also obsessed with complexion only. External feature changes over the years but what doesn't is the character. Over all these years I have seen numerous people and of various nationalities, and all that I could deduce was only one result that beauty isn't about complexion at all. A person with less complexion is far more beautiful than the one with lighter tone of skin. And most importantly who are we to judge others. Are we send to this planet to judge others beauty or to create hierarchy of beauty. NO, not at all we are here to support each other be a better person rather than hurting each other. Try to develop the real beauty in yourself and appreciate everything around you and instead of pointing out the flaws, cover them up with their goodness. You will find that everything is beautiful it was just over selves who had turned blind eye towards it.

Lastly, remember always Beauty lies within, external appearance is just the flashy advertisement which seems meaningless after detailed check. So grow your inner beauty and external will automatically follow it.

"Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly lies to the bones

Beauty dies and fades away, but ugly holds its own!

Create and cultivate Inner Beauty that never fades away

but grows and matures with Time!"

~ Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate