Beauty, by definition is a quality within a thing or being that evokes pleasure or satisfaction. This definition is rather vague and offers a multitude of examples that might fit. Among mainstream society, “beauty” might be the face of a plastic, overly made up and anemic model on the cover of the most popular magazine, of which happens to contain an endless supply of advertisements for atrocious cosmetics. These products are the basis of beauty for the reader; the quest for success ends with the encouraging idea that beauty is this pseudo ideal set up by companies to profit at the expense of the self esteem of the general public. That is not beauty. That is an outrageous facade hand-fed to the youngest of children. Adversely, beauty, by the nonconformist’s standards, tends to be intentionally the opposite of what the public domain suggests as beauty. Personally, I feel that beauty is subjective. Beauty is everything and very few things all at the same time. Beauty, from the existential stand point comes from life and pure existence. Life in itself is a beautiful miracle. A humanist might say that people are limitless fountains of beauty, constantly projecting beautiful ideas, products and emotions. Whereas a naturalist might feel that beauty is within nature, land, the air we breathe. Beauty is all of those things; it is in people of all backgrounds, ideas of all sizes, emotions of all degrees of purity and everything inside and outside of every universe. Everything is beautiful to someone; everything is a highly symbolic work of art whether it is a product of society, the individual or raw emotion.
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