The Lovely Unseen

"Beauty is a characteristic of a person, animal, place, object, or idea, that provides a perceptual experience of pleasure, meaning, or satisfaction."

When I describe someone I describe the differences of that particular person and what makes them singular.

Example:
She has blue eyes with widely stretching eyelashes and although she's very quiet she seems to observe everything - each detail is caught in her wide eyes.

-This is something I observe as a beautiful trait. An unobserved life, or unexamined life, is not worth living. When we die, our bodies fade away because the beauty that was inside has left.

But what is that beauty? It is many things, each of which depend on what you've done in your life to bring you to your current place.

What has made your personality is not just personal preferences like taste or enjoyment of romance movies over action. You are made up by your experiences - your history. But what has outwardly affected you (abusive parents, loving parents, born into poverty, personal illness...etc.) is only a small factor of your history. Your history is remembered from how you interpret events or people or ideas.

Example:
You are eating lunch at a table assemble of a few of your friends and some other people whom you are only associated with while at school. All of a sudden one girl starts giggling and whispers across the table to a second girl, sharing her laughter. But their is a dark tinge to their laughter and one girl(typically unpopular) gets an expression on her face that resembles dread and her eyes glass over. This girl was closer than you were to the whispering, giggling girls and most likely heard the cause of their amusement.
The bell rings and the two girls are still giggling and sharing their amusement with their other friends. And you watch the dreary-eyed girl slump out of her seat and quickly trudge away from the giggling girls.
What would you do?
Would you follow the dreary-eyed girl?
Would you tell her, "I don't know what they were laughing about, but I just want you to know that I'm your friend and I have a kind sense of humor." and make her into the starry-eyed girl?



I view girls who find enjoyment at the expense of other's happiness as ugly people.

My mother will say, "Stop being ugly," when she is telling someone to halt in rude actions or comments.

I see beauty as action to help others without seeking reward. Beauty gives you a pleasant sensation when you see it being done or act it out yourself.

Remember, you first learn how to use your sense when you're only a child, but it take true growth and development to see things with your mind.