I Believe That Beauty Magaznies Promote Low Self Esteem

I believe, by Savage Garden. Even though this song is more than a little Backstreet Boyish, the lyrics are something so much more. They talk of the unfairness of life, the governments ability to cripple people with financial affairs, and how society places so much importance on the outside qualities, instead of the ones on the inside that matter. This song also talks about yourself, you chose what you become. Your choices, decisions, and actions, everything we do affects us, if we dont take action for the positive, then we are only putting ourselfs back more and more. One line in particular that I love, is "Beauty Magazines promote low self esteem." This is so true in todays society. People today say that if your not a size 00, and have perfect teeth and gorgeous hair, then you dont fit into what society sees a beautify; but is that really what beauty is? Sickly girls who starve themselves to fit into jeans that are too small, and cover their natural beauty with make-up thats too thick, and doesnt show the real you. It's not just women who are affected by societys naviaty. Men too, are subject to harsh discrimation based solely on body type. If you dont have washboard abs and arms that are as big as your head, you too are put on the outside of the social circle. Is this what we are all about; Just the outside picutre? What about the qualities that are on the inside? Being caring, and considerate; has this just become an accessory to the glamorous look of the world? So what is true beauty? Can we acheive it by fitting into those size 00 pants, and having abs that look like a washboard? What if we turned the picture around. Love you, for you, for your body big or small. What if beauty were based on confidence? Being able to say, guess what, I'm not a size 00 but I'm still beautiful! To walk into a room and have heads turn to you, because you have confidence, not because your the skinniest girl in the room, or the guy with the biggest muscles. Why is it, that in the world we live in today, its not about how you feel on the inside, but what you look like on the out? True beauty is what you make of it, not what some over paid, over glamourized hollywood star says it is. Having confidence, and being able to be yourself, to have the confidence to break the mold of being pretty is being skinny. Beauty magazines should promote that I believe, beauty isnt how small you can make your waist line, but how big your heart is, and to gain the confidence to know thats right.