How do we define beauty? Beauty by its dictionary definition is the quality or sum of qualities in a person or thing that gives pleasure to the senses or pleasurably exalts the mind or spirit.

But what does that mean? I understand beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, or beauty cannot be judged objectively, for what one person finds beautiful or admirable may not appeal to another. However, how does society perceive beauty?

We have started a movement that says to accept larger body types but from my own experiences, often excludes smaller females. This beauty movement seems like another hate campaign sometimes, what could you do to help this? How do you solve an issue that everyone views differently? Are beauty standards a real issue or are people just not adjusting to the fact everyone is different?

Beauty is different from each person that views it, but how would you perceive a widely physical quality if you’re blind.

In a Youtube video made by Boldly is about “How the Blind see Beauty.” One man from that video says  “I don’t care what nationality somebody is, I don’t care how tall somebody is, I don’t care how big or small they are. A person is beautiful because they are true to themselves.”

I was once told to live life blindly. To not judge by what I see, but by what I feel. To feel the sunlight on my face or the rain against my skin. We’ve learned to define beauty by models or celebrities but for me, beauty was never about them. I’ve been called beautiful, ugly, perfect, and too small. But what do I have to learn from their responses? I know I am beautiful, I have flaws but they define my beauty.

I have to say after all this work looking for beauty, I’ve found it right beside me. I found it everywhere, the definition of beauty in the dictionary does not do anything to be able to show what true beauty is. Live life blindly, beauty can’t be just judged on looks.

How do we define something barely containable? I would have defined it as magical. It’s crazy, an unattainable thought. But now, beauty is something in everyday life. It’s in almost every song, the sound of a laugh.

It is now something I know I have; you have it too. There is no way someone should be able to tell you that you aren’t beautiful; beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

And we should accept that as something we can’t change.