What we don't understand is that, in most cases, it doesn't matter what things look like. We don't need plastic surgery. We don't need digital editing. We don't have to become anorexic to look better.
For example, the most beautiful person in the world is there next to you. You have a conversation. If every word that comes out of their mouth is foul, you don't really want to be near them, no matter how good they look.
Say you have a very-- pardon my rudity-- ugly person. Tentatively, you say hello. You have a conversation. They could be the loveliest person in the world. All it takes to get to know each other is a simple smile, a shy hello.
If you think of it, no relationship can truly thrive on looks alone. I mean, what if there was a fire and suddenly that person were disfigured. You lose the relationship. So there really is no point to live in fear and paranoia and empty, shallow nothingness.
A true friend, a really good one, will never care of how you look. Your lover will never bother much with appearance. One may say that love is blind. But it is not. It simply causes you to find beauty where before there may not have been a reason to look.
Therefore, to represent natural beauty, I present you with these pictures. They were not edited, or fixed, or changed in any way. It is just nature in it's most natural state.
This is a good post. I have been thinking about something similar lately. A young friend of mine posted on facebook that she wished people would stop calling her ugly and stupid because she was starting to believe them. Quite a few of us gathered around her and lifted her up... But as I was doing this, I wondered why. Why do people react to hatefully to each other? Why can't we all act in love?
ReplyDeleteI suppose there will be no easy answer to the question... or solution for the problem. But we can make a difference and we can break the cycle. I have seen/heard/read about people doing it.
Here's a quote I found today:
There is no error in love, for all errors are the want of love. -- William Law
P.S. I love your pictures! :)
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