Beauty

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, for I find that things I consider beautiful is often not considered so to another.  Beauty, I feel, is often an aesthetic problem that so many struggle to meet. Many change to impress, to live up to expectations, to feel beautiful. Despite this, I can’t help but feel those who go through such modifications were lovely before, in their own way.  I find that in people, the most attractive to me are those who have a unique feature. For me, everything about them cannot be so perfect, because then it is almost to the point where they are too attractive that they aren't attractive at all. Everyone knows humans aren't perfect, and in my opinion they should look as such. With that being said, I find there is an un-perfect perfectness to that, which is what attracts me to these strange aspects of their person. 

Is this so for everyone? It can definitely be stated that what I find unattractive may be attractive to another. One man's trash is another's treasure, after all. "...From the lover's point of view many things are beautiful which are unbeautiful from the point of view of him who is not a lover, and the greater the degree to which the lover is swayed by his passion the greater the extent to which his normal aesthetic standard is liable to be modified." - Havelock Ellis. One's personality attributes to their beauty, especially when viewed from someone close to them. To a stranger, judgments are based on appearance, and often rumors. However, to someone more intimate, their view could be completely altered. 

Beauty is often so trivial when compared against one's other qualities, yet the world in which we live in weighs so heavily on it. It is something which every person has in one form or another, though too many are focused on the physical facet. Beauty is a geometric gem and can be pulled from any side. Still, should we really insist on primarily pulling from the physical side, or will we ever be more than that?