They then asked me what I thought beautiful meant. I replied, "Beauty is an internal element, it is how you walk, talk, and portray yourself". Being beautiful is the moment when you realize, I am happy not because I should be but because I just am. Society tries to take grasp of our mind and tell us,
"NO! If you don't destroy your body, slaughter you mind with the all the false conceptions of being yourself then your not good enough"
"Not good enough for me"
So in the midst of me writing this, I decided to look up the actual definition of Beautiful.
The definition said,"possessing beauty, or aesthetically pleasing".
The synonyms were, "pretty, lovely, handsome, good-looking, alluring, cute and attractive."
The antonyms were, "ugly, awkward, repulsive, ordinary, disgusting, and hideous"
As you can tell most of these descriptions were physical appearances. Why can't beautiful be BOLD, LOVING, STRONG, POWERFUL, SMART and CONFIDENT
Who proclaimed that being Beautiful is physical! I want to be awkward, and pretty AT THE SAME TIME! I don't want to have to choose which form I would like to be molded in! I want to shape my own AWKWARD, CONFIDENT, ORDINARY, BEAUTIFUL life on my own, without anyone telling to pick.
Forcing me to shop at the local market, making me decide from apples and oranges.
When all I want to be is my own AWKWARD, PRETTY Pear.
I agree, we are all unique and have a wealth of personality to contribute the world. I like the choice of fruit, pears. Similar to fruit, we have our own journey (which includes bumps, scrapes, sunshine, and rain). These environmental elements help us to become outstanding individuals (with the scars to prove it). I needed this post today!
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True, true and TRUE.
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