What is ugly? What is beauty? Is ugly really that bad? Is beauty really that good? Why does everyone is conscious when it comes to physical beauty? Why does people prefer beauty than ugly? Why is the presence of beauty and ugly creates diversity instead of unity? Is it because they are opposite, or it does really need diversity because ugly and beauty are different?
Ugly from the merriam-webster (2018) dictionary means to an unpleasant to look at: not pretty or attractive, unpleasant to hear, and offensive or disgusting. When a person utters ugly word towards another person, it would make him feel hideous. He would see himself ugly and sees other person as a standard of beauty. Just like on the movie Beauty and the Beast, the beast is ugly and it scares Bela. That relates to our society that we are avoiding or judging ugly people because of their physical appearances. The Ugly duckling where her mother does not accept that she has an ugly daughter and as well as to the other siblings that they criticize the ugly duckling and with that, the ugly duckling feels sad and out cast. In our society this includes with friends, family as well, we are judging people with their differences not knowingly that they are getting hurt. Even if it expressed through jokes, no one knows if that person got hurt. No one knows what the other person is thinking and what he feels about it. The song pretty’s on the inside covered by Chloe Adams, from the very first of the stanza of the song expresses her jealousy to the girls on the magazine, she is not confident with herself that she wants to be like the girls on the magazine. Teens prefer to be look good to stand out, they try to go on diet, or apply make up in order to achieve their desires of beauty.
I for one also doubted myself, about being ugly. Why? It is because I already experienced being insulted because of what I look like. Feeling ugly really does not help you to succeed and as well it is like an illness that will ruin you silently. Even though I experience such thing, family really does help to conquer those quests. Jarrid Wilson says that God sees all the ugly pieces of your life and still chooses to love you. Ugly is either in physical, mental, did and everything but still God chooses us to love us.
Beauty is a fundamental esthetic value, it has different meaning and cannot be defined easily by a dictionary. From the merriam-webster dictionary it is defined as the quality of being physically attractive and the qualities in a person or a thing that give pleasure to the senses or the mind. Individual has their own judgment to beauty. One might say that, that thing is beautiful but others might find it as ugly. Beauty is easily appreciated or recognized at first. Beauty gives pleasure to a person that is why when you are beautiful, you are easily appreciated and recognized. Being beautiful gives an advantage to a person which is 1Peter 3:4 says, ‘True beauty begins inside”. Beauty does not only mean physically but there is also an inner beauty that is not easily recognized by everyone. It is only seen when you see it closely or deeply. Beauty is also appreciated physically, mentally and by did.
Another example for this situation is a butterfly. A butterfly starts from being a caterpillar that is not being recognized or appreciated by us people. Until it becomes pupa and becomes a beautiful butterfly that every people appreciates its beauty.
Beauty and ugly implies with each other because without ugly, you cannot appreciate what beauty is, or vice versa. Relate it to the song pretty’s on the inside covered by Chloe Adams, yes indeed that pretty is on the inside. And it is an important thing in life. From the movie Beauty and the Beast, the beast showed his kindness and love towards Bela that is why the beast has a beauty in his inside. At the end of the story, the beast turned into a handsome prince. The Ugly duckling turned into a beautiful swan, that gives a lesson which even though you are having ugly situation, at the end she became a beautiful swan. Relate it to life, at the end their will be a good thing that is going to happen.
Ugly does not define beauty but it redirects us to appreciate what beauty really is. As what Confucius says that, “Everything has beauty but not everyone sees it.” We are easily being swayed away by one ugly situation and generalize it as ugly, not knowing that there is beauty from it. From the quotes of Confucius there is really beauty in everything, even if you fine it ugly, some people say it as beautiful. “There is no real beauty without some slight imperfection,” by James Salter. This explains that ugly contributes to beauty because there is no such thing as perfection. We cannot appreciate a beauty unless ugly comes in. With a slight imperfection you learn to appreciate the beauty in every little thing. But when ugly is the one that conquering your mind believe in Romans 12:18, it says that “Look for and see the beauty in everyone.” and as well to Psalm 139:14, says “You are beautiful for you are wonderfully made.” Though ugly things happen to life let us not forget that we must see the beauty in each of it.
Ugly is the opposite of beauty which you cannot appreciate beauty if there is no ugly. Physically ugly does not define ugly as is. Beautiful in outside does not also defines what truly beautiful is. That is why no one can provoke what beauty is because it is in the person how can he or she define what beauty and ugly are. Ugly indeed is easily judged by a judgmental people but beauty is truly appreciated by seeing it deeply.
All things have beauty, whether you like it or not. Either you feel down because of the ugly experiences, ugly face, ugly body or anything that make you feel ugly, there is beauty in it. For “ugly” is just a word that challenges you, it is in your insights and in your heart what truly beauty is. It is in you, inside of you the true beauty of everything. It is because God created all things in his image and likeness, thus everything is beautiful.
You are beautiful!
PATOIS 