Inner Beauty and Outer Beauty

Inner beauty and outer beauty is a topic that can be very controversial. Outer beauty is constantly changing, whereas inner beauty has always been the same. You can always change your inner beauty if you have the honest desire to do so, but outer beauty is much harder to change. Also inner and outer beauty can work together to make up an individual’s overall attractiveness. Everyone sees outer beauty differently, but inner beauty remains the same in most people’s perspective. Outer beauty is always changing. Being pale and slightly heavy used to be considered beautiful, or desirable, because it meant you were rich. You were pale because you could afford not to work outside in the hot sun and heavy because you had the money to buy food, whereas poor peasants were very skinny from lack of food and nutrition. Today, part of physical and worldly beauty is being thin and having color on your skin from being tan. Quite the opposite of how it used to be in the renaissance time period. Outer beauty has really evolved over time. Inner beauty, on the other hand, has always been basically the same. Kindness, humility, generosity, empathy, patience, and other traits are what can make up an individual’s inner beauty. Over time these were considered sought-after qualities, and still are. Physical beauty is biological. For the most part you’re either born with it, or not. Technically a person can “enhance” their worldly beauty with makeup, surgery, dieting, etc., but for the most part it’s in their genetic makeup. Inner beauty, however, is something that can always be changed if there is a desire. By setting goals and striving to be a better person you can change who you are and how you interact with people. For example, if you’re a bitter, sour person and you decide to become a kinder, more pleasant person, you will become much more attractive to others. Have you ever met a person who initially appears to be attractive and after getting to know them a bit you realize