Inner.and.outer.beauty

     Since when has the world become this way? Where outer appearance reigning over inner beauty has become the norm. People have gone to extremes to look beautiful. Wrecking their hair with chemicals and heat, using makeup that is harsh to the skin, going on crazy diets, and tanning themselves to the point of having melanoma. All for beauty, though this beauty is not beautiful; it is all a mask. When you look at it in that perspective doesn’t it make you rethink? Now another question; Why do you feel that the world has become this way? In my opinion it is because some of the worlds more beautiful people decided they wanted to take beauty to a new level, and create the beauty industry leading to girls growing up believing that what they saw on television and in magazines was true beauty. But I tell you this, no matter what we grew up believing, true beauty comes from within. Beauty is from the heart, not the skin. It is these people with ugly hearts that make people with beautiful hearts feel bad about themselves in physical and emotional ways. With these people hating on us, we resort to changing ourselves when we are already beautiful. Why would you fix something that isn’t broken? I don’t think you would, so then why bother changing yourself when you don’t need to be changed? All to be beautiful right? Morals, ethics, being empathetic, passionate, and kind are much better things to strive to be don’t you think? Outer beauty only has so much impact in this world, whereas a beautiful personality has the chance to change a life. Beautiful people are on the television, in magazines, and being models, being in the hair and makeup chair for hours previous, and being shortstopped and airbrushed. That all seems pretty fake if you ask me. People with beautiful outward appearances may have ugly insides, and vice versa, beautiful insides with not so pleasant outsides, so what should the outside matter? Why judge on beauty when inner beauty means so much more? Face the facts, in thirty years, no one will care who was the prettiest, most attractive person, they will remember the ones with big hearts, and the ones that believed in love, and not hate. You have a beautiful heart, embrace it, and don’t ever let it turn to waste. 
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~Megan Antoinette

Narrative Parragraph. :)

Jane takes just one swift step from the silent, forgiving outdoors into the cold cruel world of high school. Dreading another day being in this place, Jane pauses and takes a deep breath, calming herself. After taking a momentary look down the hallway, she decides to move, to get the six hours of self-esteem destruction over and done with. One step, then another and another, leading the way down the crowded hallway. Looking forward and avoiding eye contact, Jane can still see the other student’s eyes on her; she feels them pierce through her. Walking still, Jane thinks to herself ‘Why can I not just live my life?’ when suddenly, the expected happens. People snickering, and taunting Jane, making fun of her, and talking behind her back. Jane does her best to choke back the tears, to avoid being ridiculed more. Finally exiting the entrance to the school, she opens the door with a sigh of relief. Taking a deep breath again, she cringes at the thought that she must endure the same abuse in the same cruel hallway again tomorrow.