The Value of Beauty

In today's society we constantly idolize physical attractiveness.  People such as models, actors and singers are constantly being publicized in a manner that shows how unnaturally perfect they are and that average, everyday people should strive to both look and be like them since they are are standard of beauty and perfection.  However, this standard of beauty is completely unrealistic because that standard of perfection can only be achieved on a magazine page and never in real life.  The standards of this beauty are created by magic computer programs that erase anything that would even consider making these people any less attractive and that emphasize and enlarge things that the public does find attractive.  Therefore, our perception of beauty is completely based on an unattainable idea.  Famous people are no different than any other human and will age and change over time just like every other human that has ever lived.  Due to human nature they will grow wrinkled and grey and there is nothing to prevent it.  This same idea is found in The Picture of Dorian Grey.  In the story, Dorian holds himself up to the exact same unattainable standards that many people hold themselves up to today.  He absolutely refuses to let himself show any signs of aging, and is willing to give away anything for eternal youth.  Not only does he defy the laws of human nature and gravity, but he does so by magic, just like the magazine models do with the computer programs.  Honestly, I cannot see how this can be healthy.  To constantly be aiming to put people down in such a way that they feel like they are not enough because of these physically and impossible standards is such a  monstrous thing to do.  Because these standards are in no way humanly possible, they make it seem as if the things that will inevitably happen to us anyways is evil.  Everyone at some point is going to become grey haired, wrinkled and put on weight simply because that is what happens to us as people.  Why should be put others down for things that should normally happen to us?