View on Beauty

We spend a lifetime being told what to feel, what to believe, what to see, who to be, what to do. Yet in the end, we are always told to be ourselves. Take that vision of beauty and tear it to shreds, as a size four to six is not perfection, when real beauty is found in a man or woman holding the hand of a dying loved one as they fade into the next existence, in the eyes of children who look at everyone with open honesty, and wonder. In the heart of a mother and father upon the day their child comes screaming into this world. That is beauty. Compassion, compelling a stranger to give their life for someone they don't know, by taking the hit from a bullet, screaming for the life of a nameless individual. That is beauty. Beauty is found in the soul of a homeless man, who spends his day begging for change, only to donate his earnings to an orphanage to make change in the world. Forget what you've been told about being human, because to be a beautiful human you have to make hard choices, ones which might cost you the only thing you own of value, your blood and bone, your very soul, given up freely by you for another. That is beauty. Beauty is a choice, chosen to be seen by free thinkers, individuals who know that true beauty is imperfections, and that to see it, one must let go of misconceptions. Believe in beauty, and in love, for they are in all of our souls. Love the ones in your world, hug them and never let go, and love the ones you don't know, for that is beauty, giving all of you everyday, to create more beauty.