Armstrong’s comment “To regard beauty as a luxury adornment or a social signifier was to miss the true potential of the experience” means that a person is ignoring the true beauty of something and how it makes them feel but rather is focusing on the social aspect of the thing. I view beauty as something that grabs my attention and brings out a strong emotion in me. This happens often when I listen to music that pleases my ears and allows me to relate to the music so that I can connect with it. Society on the other hand has come to classify beauty based what the majority of the population finds attractive or pleasing when it reality beauty varies person to person. Not everyone gets the same emotions or awe from something such as a sunset as others may. This thought is also expressed in Armstrong’s essay when he states, “People are delighted by wildly variant things and that’s how it should be, the thinking goes-so don’t get worked up trying to figure out which things are beautiful” (Lines 3-4). Everyone thinks differently and is pleased by a variety of things so there is no true way to classify beauty, it all depends on what you classify as beautiful. In other words, “beauty lies in the eye of the beholder.”