Honestly Beautiful
I write in a journal when I feel the need and I looked back and found a paragraph that really hit home for me. It obviously meant something to me when I wrote it but now I’m not sure whether it was my thought or something I heard someone say or a quote. In todays world this is a dilemma so I tried to change the words to make them mine! I wrote a poem but every time I see the original words on my desk I just know they are the right ones to share, so I’m going to claim them as my own.
The more honest you are with yourself and others, the closer you are to the real person and that is beauty in its purist form.
I sat pondering these words and wondered what I thought symbolised both beauty and honesty. One thing can truly be put into that category and that is nature. Nature is what it is, the birds, animals, flora, they all just what they are and most of the time they are beautiful! Some could say that even at their “worst” they are still beautiful. Picture a tree that is dying, it can still be seen as majestic and beautiful, or a storm with the dark background of the angry sky highlighting the colourful beauty that is a rainbow or the mess of hair that makes a Highland Cow so interestingly beautiful. Nature holds nothing back and in nature we see that true beauty.
Humans on the other hand, hide behind curtains of made up stories that they believe need to be there so they are seen as “acceptable”.
When I look at my painted coo’s, I see an honesty that I wish everyone would show. Who cares how your hair looks, so what you have a hole in your pants, so what you don’t drive the newest car or have the largest house. Does any of that have anything to do with the real you, the core of who you are? No, none of that does. The person I need to truly see is that person I can sit with and have an honest conversation about life with. It’s that person I can have a true belly laugh with. That person that is just under the surface, that is the beauty that attracts people initially. If you hold back and don’t really show them the full beautiful you, then they will tire of that superficial “view” and move on to the next scene that shows up, that looks more enticing.
Vincent Van Gogh said “If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere” and I have to agree with him. I often see something in nature that I think is absolutely beautiful that others would just walk past without even noticing. When I think about it, it’s when people are being “natural” that they are the best form of themselves, showing their true beauty. I have a challenge for you, every time you look at a Highland Coo, see their beauty, and remember you too can have messy hair and be beautiful. The honesty they show, because they can’t be anything else, that there is beauty in its purist form
So be natural and be like Harris the Highland Coo. Let the real you be seen from underneath the mess of hair, come out from behind that fake human curtain, be real, be honest, be beautiful!
Cheers
Lisa
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