“To regard beauty as a luxury adornment or a social signifier was to miss the true potential of the experience.”
True Beauty is not something that can raise your social status nor is it something you can truly buy. To me true Beauty is something that connects you back to yourself. It’s something that makes you stop and live in the moment, it reminds you of your inner-most self. However. from what I have experienced, my community just as in what Schiller explains sees it as one extreme “driver”. It has become something superficial which it is not. Beauty is not tied to monetary value, just because a diamond, gold and other precious metals and gems are expensive and in demand does not make them beautiful. Just because something is perfect does not make it beautiful. The most beautiful things to me are things and people in their rawest and truest form. They are not concealed and polished with fake facades of perfection, they are as what they are meant to be. I know not all people share this view it is as some say, “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” However, the question is are their ideals of beauty truly “true beauty” or is it what they want to see as beauty not what they truly feel is beauty.
Fantastic!