The media portrays thinness as an attribute of a beautiful person. The reality is that not everyone can be so thin and slender, so when people are not able to reach this rare attainable goal of the media's idea of perfection, people become envious of others because they are denied what they want and think is worth having. Beauty, in today's society, is power, and many people want power; they want to be looked upon as an elite--someone special and of importance. Unfortunately, people forget that they, individually, are important; each person means something and has value. We are unique with different attributes and characteristics. Most importantly, the person behind the physical appearance is really a person who is beautiful with depth, color, variety, and uniqueness. What we see is only a medium that allows us to connect to the soul of an individual. The medium is just one part, and the media and people focus too much on it that they forget the soul of an individual is much more beautiful than any physical appearance the world could offer. So why be envious? In my opinion, we think the grass is greener on the other, which in reality, it never is.
