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Why human beauty is an illusion

 

Why beauty is an illusion by Tyler Wroldsen

 

Long time ago when there were no mirrors, it was really hard pointing out whether another person were ugly or beautiful. That was because no one really knew how he looked himself. When you don’t know how your own face looks, then it becomes difficult to judge another person’s appearance. The invention of mirrors, brought us the most dangerous concepts to our existence, beauty and ugliness.                                                 

    I still remember that day in high school when one naughty boy from our class wrote all the names of the ugliest girls in our school on the chalkboard. It was a terrible thing isn’t it? Just imagine walking into the classroom and find your name written on the board. And on top of it there is headline saying you are the ugliest. You might feel offended and alienated after all, especially when you care a lot about what other people think about you. I think such kinds of classifications should totally be forbidden in our societies because they are futile and false.                                                                                          

    When mirrors came into existence, we now started figuring out our self-image and started comparing it to those of people around us. That image of ourselves that we see in the mirror, over a long period of time, we fall in love with it more than anything else. Then we treat it like the ideal person and we start to expect everyone to be shaped that way. Our own images become a gold standard against which we compare everyone that we see.                                                                                                                                   

    Now here comes the bias, when we see people with completely different facial features from ours or different from those of people around us, we call them ugly or beautiful. Over time we develop a mental abstract image of our ideal self: the person that we should be rather than whom we currently are in terms of appearance. When you see someone who looks similar to your ideal self, you start calling them beautiful and vice versa. So far I have never heard anyone saying he or she is ugly. So beauty is not just a perspective, it is an illusion. That is why you find people disagreeing whether something is beautiful or not. Beauty does not exist, all our skins are made up of stratified keratinized epithelial tissue.