Beauty
Today I would like to discuss beauty. I think the concept is fascinating. I mean the term "beauty" is kind of a vague one...there is aesthetic beauty (the physical), emotional beauty (the interior), and then there is that type of beautiful that doesn't really fit into a category.
I think beauty is playing a song I love so loud that it makes me cringe a little, and tingle a little, and sigh because it is so good it's almost painful. There is this quote that I'm obsessed with that I think best describes my thoughts about music: "Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness." Maya Angelou said that. I think she's pretty beautiful too.
Beauty is the sound of waves crashing on the beach. The scent of cookies made from scratch. Revelations about life and love that make us grow. It is the smooth skin of a young child and the smile lines that form with age. It is achieving a goal. It is the curl of lips into a smile...and the widening of that smile into a grin. It is sand castles. It is forts made in your bedroom with your friends at five, a haphazard compilation of pillows and blankets and laughs. It is the sound of raindrops landing gently on blades of grass on a warm summer morning.
Beauty is all about perspective. You can learn to love or to loathe what you have. I think that what's beautiful is the power we all hold to see things the way we do, and to change our thoughts as we learn.
Today I was having a bad day.
I was acting like nothing was the matter, but honestly, I just wasn't feeling happy. I have a lot of things to do and my agenda often bums me out. I kind of just wanted to go back to the room and go to sleep. I think that at times like those sitting down and forcing yourself to write an entry about crap like beauty makes things seem a little less atrocious.
I hope that if you were having a bad day maybe this entry helped you find the beauty in it.
I'm off...
<3 and Silver Linings
-Morgan
I think beauty is playing a song I love so loud that it makes me cringe a little, and tingle a little, and sigh because it is so good it's almost painful. There is this quote that I'm obsessed with that I think best describes my thoughts about music: "Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness." Maya Angelou said that. I think she's pretty beautiful too.
Beauty is the sound of waves crashing on the beach. The scent of cookies made from scratch. Revelations about life and love that make us grow. It is the smooth skin of a young child and the smile lines that form with age. It is achieving a goal. It is the curl of lips into a smile...and the widening of that smile into a grin. It is sand castles. It is forts made in your bedroom with your friends at five, a haphazard compilation of pillows and blankets and laughs. It is the sound of raindrops landing gently on blades of grass on a warm summer morning.
Beauty is all about perspective. You can learn to love or to loathe what you have. I think that what's beautiful is the power we all hold to see things the way we do, and to change our thoughts as we learn.
Today I was having a bad day.
I was acting like nothing was the matter, but honestly, I just wasn't feeling happy. I have a lot of things to do and my agenda often bums me out. I kind of just wanted to go back to the room and go to sleep. I think that at times like those sitting down and forcing yourself to write an entry about crap like beauty makes things seem a little less atrocious.
I hope that if you were having a bad day maybe this entry helped you find the beauty in it.
I'm off...
<3 and Silver Linings
-Morgan