Pretty Hurts

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One of the many books I've read that I'm fascinated about is "Beastly". Simply because this romance fiction book is irresistibly readable and interesting. Why? This book made me or maybe the readers, wanting to know the actions that the protagonist is going to take in order for him to be truly loved by someone before his due date of not transforming back to the normal/handsome form he once was. He is transformed into a “beast” simply to reflect the ugly personality that he has for himself and his act on other people. This book made me glued to the last page to know the outcome. 

Besides the brilliant story plotting and writing, this book can relate to the diseases that are spreading among the nation now. One of the examples is people will make a big deal of how to look pretty. What you wear on the outside is all that matters. Unfortunately, it is not true. In my opinion, people around the world are mostly thinking of getting attention and of being perfect to gain dominance, respect, love and to even fulfil the cultural expectation. And so in order to gain all these from people is to look pretty like the models in the magazines, they'll do whatever it takes to look as pretty/beautiful despite the struggles they have to go through. Mass Media has its good and bad effects sometimes. Bad effects like giving out the wrong message to the people of how they should behave or look like. Vogue says: Thinner is better. I mean really, people need to wake up! Just because something is beautiful doesn’t mean it’s good. 

What I am trying to say is that being beautiful is very subjective. People who are self-centered tend to focus only on their perspective of things like being pretty and do not try to see the world in other points of views. Being beautiful, it can be on the outside, doesn’t matter, the way you behave as a human being matters the most. In life there are many things to see and learn from, other than being pretty. Anyway, here’s a quote that took me awhile to write it down: “When one ceases to recognise their insignificance in this planet, they will never learn to see the true meaning of life beyond their stunted sight.” Agree? Also in the book, I learnt that you can have a beautiful face, but an ugly personality will ruin it. And don’t get me wrong, I’m not being a gender bias here, it may sound like I am writing this to reflect on the woman only, but sadly man feels the same way too. 

In conclusion, I thought it was a well-written book. It is like a modernised version of the Disney’s classic, “Beauty and the Beast”. I can learn so much from this book because I was once corrupted by this disease too, but not anymore. The words in the book have its hidden inspiration and motivation. It is nice to think that not all people judge someone by the outlook and true love isn’t about the way someone looks. True beauty and love is what matters on the inside and out.

DFTBA,
Dann.