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Beauty: The Search

What is Beauty?

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Beauty: The Search
Kristy Wicks

Flowers.

Don’t stay beautiful forever.

Withering in the elements.

Day by day.

Roses.

Do they ever really die?

Or do they just wilt…

And become less beautiful to the eye.


What is beauty and how do we find it?


Is beauty within the makeup bags?

No, beauty is within a person’s will to feel beautiful. The desire to feel beauty. The human longing for beauty, seeking for beauty in the makeup bag, sometimes finding it and sometimes not. And sometimes finding the beauty outside the makeup bag, without it. That’s beauty.


Is beauty within the coming of age?

No, beauty is within the acceptance of maturity and attachment to youth. Beauty lies within the aged who holds tight to innocence. And, beauty lies within the individual finding solace among adulthood and a place to finally belong. That’s beauty.


Is beauty within the skinny figure in the mirror?

No, beauty lies within the days where the figure in the mirror is happy. Beauty does not lie within the size/shape of an individual. It lies within the happiness a person will find when accepting the body her or she is granted with. Sometimes it resides within the struggling reflection because there is a desire to change, to be a better version, to be healthier. And beauty shows itself in the way someone longs to look better for themselves, as they actively do something about it. Beauty isn’t about what the body looks like, it’s that the body is living, because human bodies are beautiful and magnificent. That is beauty, with or without a mind to join it.


Is beauty within nature?

No, beauty is not simply only in nature alone. Beauty lies in the tears shed over a colorful sunset, or in the peacefulness in a forest. It shows itself when the world marvels over an astronomical phenomenon, or when there’s a quiet snowstorm. It presents in a stunning rose garden, or in a perfectly executed piece of music. But without the human contact, without humans to appreciate the beauty, would there still be this beauty? Without the appreciation of humans, nature is only nature, losing its beauty. Humans are the vessel for nature’s beauty. And that is beauty.


Is beauty within friendship?

No, beauty lies between the two friends, where the love and feelings linger. It lies in the joy and it lies in the pain. It emerges with laughter and blooms with tears. Beauty shows itself at all moments of friendship because a human heart longs for the feeling of beauty. And that longing is the moment friendship becomes beauty.


Is beauty within compassion?

No, not within the word but within the action. It lies within the helping hands of strangers and in the shared sorrows. Beauty is within the human desire to help, the human desire to be a hero, to save someone. It lies within the peace that will one day be achieved in this world. It shines in its supporters and their messages to spread it. It sparkles in the heart of a young child, as the mind develops feelings of compassion. And when compassion becomes less of an idea and more of an action, beauty lies there.


Beauty is not present in evil, for evil is to be overcome someday. Beauty will not be overcome, for beauty lies in what we cannot see, and will never disappear. There are elements to beauty that cannot and will not be seen, yet they still burn with a bright flame. Never lose an opportunity to see something beautiful. Beauty is power, a force to be reckoned with. The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched — they must be felt with the heart.


That is beauty.

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