True Beauty
Posted by Lisa, March 21, 2011
Every girl has a desire to be beautiful. They want to look pretty, be thought of as pretty, and feel pretty. What girl doesn’t like dressing up in beautiful gowns and fancy hair styles? But how do we, as ladies, really go about making ourselves beautiful?
Most girls in our day and age accomplish it quite simply. They paint themselves past recognition in makeup, wear provocative, revealing, and tight clothing, and act boisterously to gain attention. Their level of “beauty” is often measured by how many girls look to her as the cutest leader or by how many guys think of her as “cute” and “sexy” and have crushes on her. As they come into this world of “beauty,” she continues her acts of gaining attention in a revealing and impure way. She dates around, treating each guy as she would a new pair of cute shoes: she tries them on for a day or two, wears them around for a week or so, and then tosses them without a care into the back of the closet where she never really thinks of them again. But is this true beauty?
Of course not. In Louisa May Alcott’s book, The Old Fashioned Girl, we see the rich girls with fancy dresses who have many “friends.” Yet Polly, an old fashioned girl
