Ce e frumuseţea?

Wow! Asta da întrebare.
Cine poate să răspundă la această întrebare? Multe răspunsuri pot veni din diferite direcţii. Chiar şi filozofii pot să răspundă la această întrebare.
Dar Biserica poate da răspuns la această întrebare?
Păi biserica nu are treabă cu asta!
Oare? Dar ce ne facem cu atâţia oameni complexaţi, mai ales la vârsta adolescenţei şi a tinereţii?
Câte mici (sau mai puţin mici) drame se consumă datorită acestei chestiuni!
Mofturi!
Nimic nu e moft atunci când are de a face cu sufletul unui om! Câteodată suntem mai catolici decât papa şi repede răspundem cu şabloane, fie ele şi religioase. Poate că o mai mare atenţie faţă de frământările legate de crizele de identitate ar ajuta mai mulţi tineri să evite schilodirea interioară şi desfigurarea exterioară.
Recent grupul Everlife, format din trei surori, a scos single-ul What's Beutiful (Ce e frumos) la Ransom.tv, un canal deţinut de Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, canal destinat tinerilor.
Cântecul este un fel de provocare la examinarea conceptului de frumuseţe.
Fetele recunosc că au avut dificultăţi în realizarea acestui videoclip, deoarece unele ipostaze nu le erau dragi.
Cu toate acestea a meritat să deschidă discuţia despre frumuseţe, pentru că multe fete şi femei au lupta aceasta de a arăta mai bine decât apar în oglindă.
Mesajul central al cântecului este că fiecare e unic şi nu trebuie băgat într-un şablon.
Priviţi videoclipul acesta, dar urmăriţi în mod special mesajul cântecului.

Take a breath, easy now My eyes are playing tricks on me Tell me the mirror must be lying It's not what I want to see
How can I just be me When I don't recognize myself Wishing I was something better I want to be someone else
Lately I've been fighting with that girl in the mirror Who decides what's beautiful We are all so different, not one is the same Now it's time that we can all decide What's beautiful
Look at her, so confident Perfection, so appealing She seems so happy but she is plastic It's not what I want to be
I deal with this every day I'm slowly starting to break free Learning how to truly love who I was made to be Who I was made to be
I've had enough to see what's fake It's always been my choice to make Imaginary enemy no longer has control of me
We all define what's beautiful We all define, we will decide We all define what's beautiful We all define, we will decide
Lately I've been fighting with that girl in the mirror Who decides what's beautiful What's beautiful

Pe aceeaşi temă iată ce are de zis şi Johnny Diaz, în melodia More Beautiful You


Little girl fourteen flipping through a magazine Says she wants to look that way But her hair isn't straight her body isn't fake And she's always felt overweight
Well little girl fourteen I wish that you could see That beauty is within your heart And you were made with such care your skin your body and your hair Are perfect just the way they are
There could never be a more beautiful you Don't buy the lies disguises and hoops they make you jump through You were made to fill a purpose that only you could do So there could never be a more beautiful you
Little girl twenty-one the things that you've already done Anything to get ahead And you say you've got a man but he's got another plan Only wants what you will do instead
Well little girl twenty-one you never thought that this would come You starve yourself to play the part But I can promise you there's a man whose love is true And he'll treat you like the jewel you are
So turn around you're not too far To back away be who you are To change your path go another way
It's not too late you can be saved If you feel depressed with past regrets The shameful nights hope to forget Can disappear they can all be washed away By the one who's strong can right your wrongs Can rid your fears dry all your tears And change the way you look at this big world
He will take your dark distorted view And with His light He will show you truth And again you'll see through the eyes of a little girl