True Beauty

What is beauty? I think today in society sometimes there is a twisted sense of what beauty really means. But if you search the definition of beauty the first thing that came up was "a combination of qualities, such as shape, color, or form, that pleases the aesthetic senses." Isn't it interesting how it doesn't define a specific size that is beauty, or a specific color. So why do we?

 Alek Wek, a famous model, said something profound about what it is to be beautiful, she said "True beauty is born through our actions and aspirations, and in the kindness we offer others. Beauty should not be culturally relevant, it should be universal."

Lupita Nyong'o shares her journey of learning about beauty in this AMAZING video below.

Lupita Nyong'o on beauty

  We are surrounded by beauty. Its in the human experience, yes life is hard, we've all established that, but there is such a deep beauty in pain! Its the storms in our lives that have gotten us to the place we are at today, and that will lead us to where we will go tomorrow. Don't get me wrong, what has happened to us has no determination or limitation in what we can be, do, or where we can go in life, but if we want and choose to let it, it can help us get to where we want to go. We get to choose to be bitter or better, and there is SO much beauty in choosing to let it make us better. Empathy is learned and it is what makes us real. That is true beauty to me. What is true beauty to you?