Journal #4 - Beauty

A person can be beautiful in many ways.  A person can have inner beauty; beauty that exists in a personal manner that is more along the lines of the greatness of a person’s personality and overall character, and is not at all related to their exterior appearance.  Exterior appearance could also be a thing of beauty, although exterior appearances are usually judged by the individual.  There is no standard of beauty that all people can agree upon; rather, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.  Many different factors can go into what the viewer actually considers beautiful.  Culture, for instance, can have a great effect on what a person considers to be beautiful.  In American culture, for example, an abstract piece of art that would be considered by some to be a great beautiful piece may be considered an elaborate piece of garbage in another culture.  Personal experiences can also have a great influence on what one person may consider beautiful.  If a certain image can recall a certain fond memory or picture from a persons’ past, that image could be thought of as a beautiful image by that person.  Several other influences could also play into what a particular person may consider beautiful, not so much a matter of a universal image.