True Beauty

**The beauty this post is about is a totally different kind of beauty this blog is centered around. I blog about beauty as a hobby- a beauty that doesn't define you, but something you do for fun. This post is about a deep beauty- the kind that does define you.**


 Once upon a time there was a girl named M. M was asked to homecoming and was super excited; it would be her first homecoming dance! M, her mom, and her sister went to go shopping for a dress. The first store they went to had a lot of dresses, but there was only 1 dress M liked. She thought it was beautiful! She went to try it on. It didn't fit. M asked the fitting room attendant if they had the same dress in a bigger size. The attendant told her that the dress M had already tried on was the biggest size they carried. So M went to another store to see what they had.

The second store had even more beautiful dresses! Almost immediately after entering the store a worker approached the girls. She asked who they were shopping for. M said that they were shopping for her. The worker then told M, without even asking M what size she was, that the largest size they carried was an 8 and told M to try another store.

M walked to the car with her mom and sister. As they began driving away, M started to cry. She said that she was "too fat". 

Unfortunately, that's not just a story. That happened today...
 It never ceases to amaze me with how the world portrays beauty. According to the world, beauty is being a size 0, having the most expensive clothes, wearing hardly anything, etc. In fact, if you Google the definition of beauty, this is what it says-

"a combination of qualities, such as shape, color, or form, that pleases the aesthetic senses, esp. the sight."

I want you to know that the world's definition of beauty is not what beauty is. Beauty is not what the world says it is. You do NOT have to look like a model on the cover of a magazine in order to be beautiful.

Beauty can be seen, but it is something that comes from the inside and shines out. To be beautiful, be yourself, be kind to others, have high moral standards, treat others the way you would like to be treated, and most of all be you {beYOUtiful}. Don't be the world's kind of beautiful- they have it all wrong! True beauty cannot be painted on, surgically created, or purchased.

Beauty comes in all shapes and sizes and is a rare, very valuable treasure.