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CMV: "Scars make us beautiful" is a dangerous and deluded way of looking at your past.

If you guys are frequent visitors on Instagram, you know what I'm talking about because this culture runs rampant there. You've probably seen at least one post about celebrating the scars life has given you and how they make you beautiful. And I understand that it helps people deal with things that happened to them. 

The problem is when they not only use it as a coping mechanism, but also start to believe it. No, I don't think that disease you overcame or that person who bullied you for years enhanced your life or made you a better person in any way. Stronger, yes, because you had no choice.  The truth is you would have been just as good a person WITHOUT all those things happening to you and you sure as hell would've been a lot happier. 

Incidents like the ones listed above, I believe, shouldn't be glorified as positive experiences. Before you know it, people who have been lucky enough to go through only minor amounts of shit in their lives will be thinking they lack some sort of depth because they never had a big battle to fight. If the presence of scars brings some kind of beauty, surely their absence means that beauty is missing. Right? Nope. Because the very people saying scars are beautiful wouldn't have gone looking for them if they hadn't forcefully been inflicted upon their lives. 

Celebrate your spirit for overcoming your battles and I'll celebrate you as a person. But don't be under the impression that these battles contributed one iota of beauty to your life; they were horrible events that were a meaningless blip in a life that could've been a lot more beautiful had they not happened. Scars don't make us beautiful, they simply make us who we are.

Edit: cool, lots of new responses! I'll read through and reply to the new ones later though, have an exam I need to study for.
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Going through traumatic experiences can certainly bring beauty into someone’s lives, if not just for appreciation of smaller things they previously never had an appreciation for.

It seems you are looking at it as if someone who has a scar they consider to be beautiful that it somehow makes your scarless past seem less beautiful. This is not true, one does not take away from or add to the other. They are separate.  

That person who overcame a disease can now see the fragility of life like he was not able to see it before. He now reaches the goals he set forth because his understanding of “you might not have tomorrow” has changed drastically in importance. He can now prioritize what it is he wants in life like he was never able to before. This makes him his better self. Not better than you, who has never been through this. 

That person who was bullied- they now have a different outlook on life that is more beautiful than it was before because they are able to empathize with people they likely would not have been able to empathize with before. They can see the pain that tearing someone else down can inflict. They are better than their prior selves because of it. That does not mean they are better than you. 

These revelations deserve to be celebrated.