'WHAT IS BEAUTY?'

    "Beauty comes from within". "The true beauty of a person is recognized through their attitude and not through their physical appearances." These are the statements I often heard to 'playing-safe-like' people when you ask about the real meaning of beauty. Well, screw that shit because it ain't real. Let us come to the reality where, when a person has fair skin, thick eyelashes, and eyebrows, slim body, pimple-less face or pointed nose, you can already say that the person is beautiful. Some may say that even people with pimples, flat nose, fat or tanned skin are still beautiful. Yet I still haven't read or heard people say, 'she helped an old woman, therefore she's beautiful', 'she cares about our nature, therefore she's beautiful', 'she respects her parents, therefore she's beautiful', 'she's a good person, therefore she's beautiful'. We may have different perspectives of knowing what is beautiful though most of it is based physically and not through the attitude of an individual.

'What is beauty?', my friend asked me. I told her, 'Beauty is a piece of mindset woven in the eyes of a person.'

My Autobiography

The Dream Mirrors My Life 

 

The darkness begins to swallow the forest as the orange-colored circle was about to descend beneath the horizon. Tall trees dancing as cool breeze whistles and dangle from branches to leaves. A lost girl is wandering underneath and trying to make herself look                                                              bold and brave.  

As she was walking, she was amazed by the biggest tree in the middle of the forest that makes her tripped on its root and fell on her feet. She was hurt but didn’t cry because she was used to be hurt. She started to realize that it is the month of June, where trees take out its darkest leaves and fill its branches with goods, where the sun easily bid its goodbye and the month when she was finally out of the womb and had seen the good things in this world. She smiled as she remembered that she is now turning into an independent woman and is now making things on her own. While struggling in making a way through a rotting log, she saw a rabbit innocently eyeing on her. She tries to tame it, so as she tries to reach it, two white teeth greeted her hand. Good thing it wasn’t that deep but it bleeds. She tried to pay back but she just realized that there is nothing she could get in revenge. 

      The girl walks again for almost hours but she wasn’t scared even though darkness already crept into her whole body and surroundings. In her mind, the moon joins and keeps an eye on her and the stars are a good company that comforts her. Slowly, her feet began to oppose her, making her stop and feel the ache in her whole body. But she can’t ever give up so she pushes herself to walk again until she reached her limit and fell into her knees breathlessly. She was exhausted as she hears noises telling her how weak she was. She was furious about what she heard so she tries to walk again but a faint voice made her stop, telling her that it’s okay to take a deep breath at least.  

      She decided to rest despite the noises of disbelief. As she tries to take a nap, her eyes met a pair of menacing sharp eyes of a hissing scaled creature. She was shocked and afraid. She tried to shout but it was like two bars of candy stuck on her throat. Her mind was filled with thoughts and possibilities but she’s not moving. She was named to be rational and logical but when things got worse she still doubted herself. Moments have passed when she gathered all her courage to try and slowly pick a stone to scare it. What she did luckily made the creature go away and what the creature made luckily make her find herself. 

     Now, for almost years of hiding in an endless journey, her true self finally came into view, a vulnerable woman seeking her true essence. As sadness fell from her eyes, a silver lining came into light. She has now found the right path. She will now walk with positivity in her mind in either the bright and dark parts of the way. As a blinding light came into view, I blink my eye several times and I realized I was in my bed. I smiled and I stand on my feet. Now, it’s time to continue and walk again. 

Walk through the depths of your dream. Dream to walk through the depths of it.