Inner Beauty

My topic is Society and Beauty. To begin with, I want to share with you my story. Just three months ago,

I took a bus to visit my good friend who lives in Panyu—a place far away from our university.

I was sitting in the back seat of the bus and listening to music while suddenly, a young guy got on the bus----he was tall with cool hairstyle and fashionable dress. There were sparkling dark eyes shining on his handsome face which made me hardly took my eyes off him. It's refreshing to appreciate such a beautiful scene. Well, I believed most of you have similar feelings or experience like mine because most of us like beauty and are easily attracted by pretty things. Right? However, was this true beauty? Well, to answer this question, let me continued my story. When the handsome boy sat back in his seat, an untidy old woman got on the bus. Instead of offering his seat to her, the young guy looked at her with contempt. Then, he picked up his phone, talking loudly with many dirty words. From then on, his previous beauty somehow faded away and was totally out of sight at last. Did his face change or his hairstyle become rumpled? Obviously not, then why in my eyes, he was no longer beautiful as before? Well, I think it has something to do with the inner beauty which is often ignored by our society.

It is well acknowledged that true beauty combines two parts-----outer beauty and inner beauty. Both are equally important. But how many of us really pay as much attention to the inner beauty as to the outer beauty? How many of us treat them the same?

Nowadays, if you get to the Internet and browse the news, you will find that many titles like the first beauty what what what on the top of the banner ad. When you click them, what you mostly can see is all about the beautiful pictures, no descriptions about the character, behavior, manners---the inner beauty. What's worse, now more and

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