#made as an writing assignment
#an example of an essay developed through definition
“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
Kübler-Ross
What’s
the first thing pops out in your mind when you see a word “beauty”? A good-looking face? The face of your idol?
Your girlfriend’s angelic face? The Oxford Dictionary has its own way to define
that word: beauty: [mass
noun] a combination of
qualities, such as shape, colour, or form, that pleases the aesthetic senses,
especially the sight. That meaning is what common people will
define too. For me, beauty has something more than just what’s invisible, more
than just something that pleases your sight. It’s reflected by what you have
inside of you, exactly just like what Elisabeth Kübler-Ross said above. It has
to be understood, because nowadays people are competing to be the most
sightly-beautiful, without even repairing their inner beauties.
Now
let’s think about it: you saw a very beautiful woman on your age for the first
time. Then you became acquainted to her. She seemed so nice. When you two were chatting,
knowing each other well, a beggar came and your girl started to cuss him. Or when
you overheard her cursed at her maid over the phone, what would you feel?
Suddenly lost all of your interests toward her? I bet many of you would feel
that way. That’s why, I think, how you maintain what’s inside of you is way
more important than your invisible beauty.
Taking
care of what God has given to you is absolutely necessary, nothing’s wrong
about it. Nevertheless, the ability to take care, to expand, to develop your
attitude is much more needed and is more difficult to master of course. No
matter how hard you try to cover your attitude up, it will slowly but sure
appear when you’re getting closer to someone. How long you can survive just by
your appearance?
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