When I think of Beauty two things come to mind:
The first is a memory from when I was ten years old and on the fringes of insecurity. I was ushered into the dreaded preteen years by this scarring experience. My best friend and I had a devised a plan where she would call the boy I liked and see if he liked me back. Well she called alright and then called me back to tell me that he in fact did not like me and said I was “the ugly one”. She then proceeded to tell me about how he actually liked her and she liked him. In complete ten year old despair I ran to my mom and said “he said I was uglyyyyyyyy!!!!?”. My mom replied by saying “Beauty is relative. He thought she was prettier but someday someone will think you are pretty. Everyone is beautiful to someone so you are never really ugly…. Just to him.” At the time her honesty was anything but comforting but as I’ve grown up I wholeheartedly agree. I think I would put it more like this- in everyone there is beauty whether you realize it or not. When you accept that fact you find that there is a lot more beauty in your life.
The second is the movie Life is Beautiful. It’s a movie about an Italian Jew who is taken to a concentration camp with his young son. All along he convinces his son that they are in a game and for every time he listens to the soldiers he’s earning points. If he makes it through the whole game he’ll be rewarded with a real live army tank. I know it’s just a movie but it taught me some major life lessons. Like that life in the midst of terrible circumstances has the ability to be beautiful. If you’ve never seen it watch it and if you don’t get to at least take this quote from it.
“Nothing is more necessary than the unnecessary."
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