~BEAUTY~
We've all heard the saying that
"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder,"
and as I grow older, I realize how true that
statement really is.....
Have you ever looked around you to see how we,
as humans, view the beauty of a person??
We, as a collective of human beings, tend to look only
on the outside exterior of what beauty is, when
that is not what beauty REALLY is at all....
People go around getting boob jobs, face lifts,
fake nails, fake hair, and going on crash
diets that make them miserable, just so
they will look beautiful to the world,
but does it really make them more beautiful?
Does that make them feel better inside?
Does that make people love them more?
I think not.....
When I was younger I was considered to be very
beautiful or cute, by many people.
I had the hair, skin, thin body, cute
little turned up nose and graceful neck that
everyone always told me made me beautiful.
I had it all.....
or so I thought......
I lived on my looks for years and years.....
I got boyfriends that way,
I got jobs that way,
and yes, I even got friends that way.....
But very few people knew of the pain that I
carried inside of me every day of my life.
I was not a happy, beautiful, girl or woman....
In fact I was always very sad.....
But why, you ask???
Isn't that what we all wish
for and want?
I'll tell you why....
Because I never felt that anyone truly loved
me for who I was inside....
Nobody ever took the time to know me.....
TRULY know me.....
There was nothing I wanted more than to have
someone fall in love with what was inside of me
rather than what was outside of me, but it
just never happened.
As I've grown older, I've gotten heavy and I've
lost my outer beauty, because of illness.....
People on the street just see me as an overweight,
middle-aged woman now.....
That's been hard to take for someone like me
who has always gone by her looks.
When this first started happening to me, I realized
that now I would had the opportunity to see if
people really loved me for who I am inside,
but it's still hard to take at times, for you see,
the world still looks on the outside of a person
to find beauty.
I never took the time before to truly be beautiful on
the inside.....
Why should I when I could get anything I wanted
by my looks alone? I never thought
that I would get old so I didn't take the time
to even consider the whole concept.
When we are young and have it all, we just don't
take the time to cultivate our inner beauty,
because we think that we'll always be young
and beautiful on the outside.
But alas!! Age happens to everyone!!
If we don't try to find our inner beauty when we
are young, we end up being old one day
with no substance.
It's taken a lot of growth and pain to try to find
my true inner beauty and I am just now
starting to realize that if I can't find
my OWN inner beauty, that nobody else
will either!!
Sad, but true.....
We all need to stop for a moment, sometime in our life,
to discover the true beauty within ourselves, rather than
to cultivate the beauty that people can only see.
If we have an ugly personality who goes around
saying and doing mean things to hurt other people
and not taking other peoples feelings into consideration,
then we are not a beautiful person inside, regardless
of how pretty or handsome we may be on the outside.
There is an inner beauty.....
an inner light.....
that God put within each and every one of us when
our soul first came into existence, that we need to
find, once again. If we don't find that little
piece of God's inner light, we will only be
disappointed in life.
We will get old and ugly and have nothing beautiful to
give to the world anymore. This is what I have
gone through.
That is why I am writing this
today.......
to try to help others who may be going through
the same thing, or who may be headed in
the direction that I went.
TRUST me on this, it's not an easy road to take!!
Do it now before it's too late!!
Start looking within and cultivating that beauty.
Try to be less selfish, by thinking more of others.
By doing and saying nice things to people,
instead of hurting people.
By truly trying to love and understand people....
we all carry a heavy burden.....
don't be so quick to criticize, but stop and think of
how you might feel if you were in that
other persons shoes.....
Get to know other people....who they really are.....
then you will have more compassion.....
I am finding that the more I cultivate that inner beauty,
the more I have to offer the world.
I have been very fortunate to find some wonderful
people on the internet who have turned out to be
some of the best friends that I've ever had in my
entire life......
We can't see each other, but we give of our heart's and soul's to
each other.....
That is what it's all about my friends.....
People are less judgmental on the net, because we're not
looking at the exterior person.....
It's this kind of unconditional love that has helped me to
grow more than anything.
God knows I still have a long ways to go yet,
but I'm slowly getting there, one day at a time.
You will to if you start trying
today.....
Don't wait for 'tomorrow' because by the time
'tomorrow' gets here, it may be too late....
You may not be here tomorrow....
The person who may need your help and love
today may not be here tomorrow....
Your looks may be gone tomorrow,
for the future is uncertain....
Start being beautiful today if you can,
and you CAN!!
Just DO it!!
P.S. Oh, and the next time you see a little old lady or man walking down
the street, remember that they were once someone's precious little
newborn baby and they were probably once a beautiful young person
just like you are now!!
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