Everyone says that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but I think that is just garbage. Why should you get to determine if someone or something is beautiful? What is this standard we set forth that says something is beautiful or ugly?

We are raised to judge every single thing we see by some set standard of beauty and that just does not make sense. How are you judging this person? What set of standards are you using? Are their eyes the wrong shape or color? Is their nose not the right shape? Is the coloring of their skin an issue for you? Why do you get to say they are not beautiful? My heart breaks when I hear that people do not think that everyone is beautiful in their own way.

When I hear people talk about appearances, I wonder if their parents truly raised them right. I have heard so many people very vocally express their opinions on appearances. Once I heard a girl say how she would only be friends with people who are attractive because at the end of the night, she wants to be surrounded by people who are as "attractive" as she is. I compare that to the time when a girl once told me that I am her friend, so of course I am attractive--not that I am attractive and that she honestly believes so, even if we were not friends. For some reason, we only want to surround ourselves with "attractive" people and disregard the others, which confuses me. I truly wonder how you cannot see the beauty within everyone. Well apparently, it is rather easy because it has been blatantly vocalized to me by people that they just do not believe everyone is beautiful--if everyone was beautiful, it is no longer special.

Instead of glorifying the fakeness of the Kardashians, let us commend the natural beauty we all have. Now the Kardashians do whatever they want, and if they feel pretty, then that is their business, but society needs to stop making that seem as though its the "normal" look. Go up to a random person and just compliment them on one thing--how they have a lovely hair color or style, the complex design of their eyes, their beauty marks, or even their eyebrow shape. If you cannot find something beautiful in every person you see, then you are not going through life the right way. Instead of fixing the current problems that society faces, such as low self-esteem, you are contributing to it. Make everyone--no matter the age, race, gender or size--feel as though they are beautiful and lovely because when the day comes that you overhear someone comment negatively on your appearance, you would hope someone else might be there to tell you how that is not true.

Love everyone. See the beauty, even from within. And if all else fails, grow up because it is childish to make someone feel less because you compare them to the ever-changing standard that society sets forth.