It is not wrong to seek beauty. The circuits of our brain are tuned to the frequency of beauty; it is a part of us to seek it out and to love beauty simply because it is. Beauty, though, is sometimes hard to see. It is the treasure that lies in a field, the grasses of which betray nothing unusual. You cannot tell a hero from a coward just from the lines on his face, and you cannot measure someone's heart even by looking into his eyes. We may get feelings, but nothing real firm, and the feeling itself is prone to error. We are suspicious of one another: things are not what they appear to be and we dislike being deceived. We want true beauty, not a cover-up cream.
Now, I'm not going to be the twelve thousandth person to tell you that true beauty lies within. You've probably heard it so many times you can't tell it apart from the wax in your ears. What I'm going to tell you is that true beauty is simple. For example, honesty is beautiful: simple truth. That would be the antithesis to the famous, "Oh, what a tangled web we weave / when first we practice to deceive." Lies are ugly; they complicate. Look for simplicity the next time you look for beauty — even in the most ornate of designs, how it is that the harmony of that composition makes it simple. And sometimes, things are exactly as they seem — and that's beautiful.
imani 64@hotmail.com
6:11pm tuesday, 18th december
I agree, real beauty does lie in the simplicity of people, places and things.
meredith76@hotmail.com
8:04am thursday, 20th december
people are the most beautifull, when they have nothing left to give. when they are broken down to nothing and all they have is who they are and all they can be is what they are at the moment. thats when people are beautifull. thats when humanity is beautifull. i guess it goes along with the christian doctorine of people needing God. when man has nothing left... he realizes who he really is and that hes destructable and vulnerable and in need of something. thats when man is exactly all they are and nothing more just what they are nothing more simply who they are. and thats when a persons true beauty shines. at that point, from my expirince, is when a person gives the most when they give nothing becuase they have nothing to give... yet they still give nothing away. simpleness broken down to its nature. i dunno maybe im crazy hehehehe.
Raymond
4:21am saturday, 22nd december
It only takes one flaw to make something that was beautiful ugly.It only takes one lie to destroy someone's trust .To make a ugly piece beautiful it takes work.Hard work.How many of us are ready to put forth the effort to make an ugly thing beautiful?It takes a lot of effort just to start.When you begin on your task you are not sure that you can do what it takes to make an ugly piece turn into a beautiful piece.You will never do it ;unless you try.Beauty is what you make it out to be.
bj
12:26am wednesday, 22nd may
You are so right. There's not much beauty in the world, we have to make the best of what we have. We all were born with beauty, until it wastes away with the hate in our hearts.
imani 64@hotmail.com
meredith76@hotmail.com
bj