True beauty is not a currency to be earned in the marketplace of trendy features and airbrushed perfection, but the inherent signature of a human soul made visible. It is a light that shines from the unassailable core of human dignity, a dignity that exists not in spite of our perceived flaws, but often because of them—in the stories etched by laughter and grief upon a face, the strength carried in a body that has endured, and the unique symmetry of a spirit that cannot be replicated. Our worth is not a variable equation measured against the fickle ruler of modern standards, which shrink and expand with the seasons; it is an immutable, non-negotiable fact bestowed by our very existence. To reclaim this truth is to perform the most radical act of defiance: to look in the mirror and see not a problem to be fixed, but a person to be honored, to look at another and recognize the same inviolable light, and to understand that dignity, and thus beauty, is never given—it is only ever acknowledged.
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