So, people are always talking about beauty, especially in our culture, and I feel like it gets over used in some areas, and way underused in others. For example, many beautiful girls don’t feel that they are beautiful, because they don’t fit in to some idea of beauty that our culture has created, and which, if you ask me, is neither beautiful nor even attractive. In fact, sometimes it is downright ugly. Anywho, I’m going to describe beauty as I see it. For starters, beauty is not entirely physical. I know some people think that that’s just something people say to make unattractive people feel good, but its true, beauty is more than physical. I cant entirely describe it, its not anything specific, its just something that radiates out from beautiful people. And I think a big part of it is attitude, coming from things like humility, kindness, love, and those sort of things. But really, when I think of the word beauty, what comes to mind is nature. For example, picture a sunset over a lake, the sky filled with the deepest colors:
At the horizon its this golden glow, which fades quickly to a tangerine-ish color with a tinge of red, and then to purple, and finally to the star filled midnight blue that you only really see when you get away from city lights. The hill across the lake is covered in trees, and the last rays of sunlight peek through the top trees, and the green leaves are the fresh light color they get after a day of summer rain. The lake is so still, and it reflects the sunset so perfectly that it takes your breath away.
I could go on describing, but its getting to sound like some cheesy guided meditation thing. Anyway that’s just a taste of what enters my mind when I think of “beauty.” It sortof goes without saying that I live in a world in my head sometimes. But so, when I use that word to describe someone, its not just something charming to say to make a girl feel good about herself, or something kind to say about a person or thing, it holds all the weight of images such as the one I described earlier.
Basically, what I’m trying to say is that… well I’m not really sure exactly what I’m trying to say I guess I got sidetracked by different sides of beauty, but I guess what I originally set out to say was that there is beauty in everyone, even if you can’t see it in yourself, there are people out there who see it in you, and it’s worth listening to them.
