Last update: 18 March, 2016
You dress up beautiful and trendy clothes, you comb your hair, you follow the diet to lose weight, you use creams to mask your imperfections, heels to look taller, make-up to highlight your beauty. However, your true beauty is behind all this, it is you, with your infinite imperfection and your being a woman.
Who decides what is beautiful? No one can care what the word "beautiful" means, if you are beautiful or not, and for this you must appreciate who you are and you must project this beauty of yours on all aspects of your life and your existence.
The beauty of the face is a fragile ornament, a flower that fades quickly, but the beauty of the spirit is something substantial and solid ”.
-Moliere-
Perfection tires
If we think of all the cosmetic surgery operations that exist, of all the treatments for not getting old, it almost seems that we want to reject old age, what is broken, what is imperfect. Today's consumerist society, made up of tall, thin, perfect women, has abandoned all values, the essence of femininity, of the beauty of the real woman.
It is tiring to always think about how to be beautiful, how to satisfy that ideal of beauty that has been imposed on us since we are little girls, which we see on television and in magazines ... We try to reach an impossible ideal, which is not real, which prevents us from seeing that, in reality, we are already beautiful.
The beauty and strength of imperfections
In Japan, it is traditional to repair broken ceramic with a strong adhesive substance mixed with gold dust, in order to enhance imperfections instead of hiding them. It is thought that when an object is damaged and broken, it has a story to tell, which makes it more beautiful. This traditional art is known by the name of Kintsugi.
If we apply the same concept to human beings, we should learn to appreciate imperfections, old age, with all its wisdom and with all its strength. We should learn to accept ourselves as we are, without trying to stop time, which actually makes us beautiful, wise and strong.
“The beauty of a woman does not depend on the clothes she wears, nor on the appearance she possesses or the way she combs her hair. The happiest women are the most beautiful women ”.
-Audrey Hepburn-
Show your frailty
It is thought that a perfect person does not have the right to cry, to fail, to have a body that does not respect the canons of beauty, to be vulnerable, to be afraid. What kind of happiness can such a person feel? It is essential to learn to show one's fragility. What makes us feel fragile is what can bring us closer to others.
Perhaps showing our vulnerability scares us, but if we don't, we will never be ourselves, we will never learn to show ourselves as we are. They can hurt us, but it is a risk we must take to be able to live in harmony with our identity.
Imperfect beauty
Little by little, the idea begins to emerge that beauty is not that of a very thin and very young model. Beauty is reality, imperfection, what the passage of time shows. We must try to make values such as self-esteem, well-being and diversity prevail.
However, it is difficult to change the idea that one has of beauty, especially because beauty is subjective, it has a different meaning for each of us. Beauty is imperfect, it is natural, it neither covers itself nor tries to be what it is not, does not hide the signs of the time, but appreciates its wisdom and history, and shows it to the world.
Show your imperfections and learn to be beautiful
For this reason, your beauty is seen when you show yourself for what you are, when your spontaneity comes out into the sunlight, when you do not hide, when you cry and when you laugh, when you are afraid and show it, when you feel vulnerable and let others see it, when you run the risk of loving and opening your heart, when you are beautiful .
Is there anything more beautiful than showing ourselves for who we are? They teach us to hide, to make up, to cover ourselves, but we have to go out, spread our wings and fly, because showing real beauty is an act of courage.
“I have learned that courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. Courage is not the one who does not feel fear, but the one who manages to overcome it ”.
-Nelson Mandela-
