Social media is such a new phenomenon. Everything has its pros and cons, but we still don’t know what the consequences of its excessive use will be.  To me, it seems like social media can inflate our sense of vanity. We may update our following with our successes and post altered photos for likes, or we might complain about our hardships in order to get sympathy. We might argue with strangers about politics. Social media gives us enough distance from the conflict itself to feel confident about our opinions. Social media has become the way in which we might outwardly beautify ourselves to others, but does this prevent us from considering what it means to be truly beautiful, that is, to possess beauty within? I recently came across a painting by Pompeo Batoni titled “Time Orders Old Age to Destroy Beauty” that made me think about the divine nature of …