Pretty Is A Lie ( October Free Choice)

Pretty is a lie. The word itself can only bring about harm.

See, if you turn to a friend and call them pretty. What are you really saying? You’re saying that their body looks nice or their clothes look nice or their makeup looks nice. You aren’t calling them pretty. When you insult your friend by calling them pretty the person across the room will overhear you.

That person already having issues with their appearance will feel more flawed, depressed, hurt. Believing that her eyes, her hair, her lips, her body is the epitome of pretty. Knowing they she herself can’t ever fit this image of pretty we’ve falsely created, she’ll find herself alone. Possibly crying. Possibly cutting. Possibly dying.

Wait.

Possibly dying?

How can we be so naive to let this definition of pretty drag us down to thinking about death?

Pretty shouldn’t define a great body image. It shouldn’t define who we are. Now, wait, I’m not saying we should abolish the word pretty. No. But, we should change its meaning. Change it to something bigger than outward appearance. Something everyone can change about themselves. Something worthy enough to be called pretty.

These words: beauty, beautiful, captivating.

They all have one thing in common. They are all seen, but not felt. Yet, all of them can be made to fit a positive definition. How? Add one word to it.

Inner beauty. Beautiful heart. Captivating aura.

Now, all these words cannot be given a negative light. They’ll be overheard and the person who overhears them can think personality instead of body. They’ll think about something they can change about themselves, rather than getting depressed about thinking about something they cannot.

So, stop calling your friends pretty, it only insults them, stop hurting others, subconsciously, stop putting so much emphasis on body image. Instead complement your friends with comments about how great their heart is. Help people who overhear you by showing them what a kind heart is.

Start sharing and creating more inner beauty.

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Column- Sunrise influencing people

The sunrise.

It’s rays illuminate the sky and changes the colour of the clouds. Turning into a either a wonderful pink colour or a flamboyant red, the clouds alone will lift your spirits. The smell of the air even changes. It will have no actual scent, but what it does create is the smell or sense of being alive. People smell the air when the sunrises, not because it smells good, it’s because they feel alive in the mornings when they smell the air.

The feeling generated by the sun rising is incomparable. It brings you joy, peace, or it will make you feel alive every time you see it. Seeing the sunrise every morning will never get old because no sunrise is the exact same, they may be similar but they are not the same. Each different sunrise will bring along a different sensation. One day it will be joy, another day it will be peace, the day after it’ll be relief, but what they all have in common is that they create the feeling of being alive.

The warmth radiating from its golden rays come in contact with your skin, and, somehow those rays of sunlight will enter your heart. Unlike the mid-day sun, where the sun is always there not doing anything, the morning-sun will enhance your positive aura. Your aura will become strengthened by positivity; it will reflect any negative energy that comes your way. Think about it, in the morning you’ve just woken up, you see the sunrise, what do you feel. You feel satisfied with life. You may not realize it, but your aura is being protected or engulfed with positivity.

Most people who watch the sun rise will always smile when looking at its stunning beauty. The people who don’t smile will be thinking of a time they were happier or a time of regret. They’ll be imagining a better time that they’ve experienced or they’ll picture something they regret not changing. However, after they stop thinking, the rays emitting from the sunrise will be allowed to enter their heart. By allowing this stream of positivity to enter their heart, they are able to become protected by the energy. Even if they try to think back to a regret they won’t be able to or at that moment they won’t care about it because the sun has created a barrier blocking out any negativity.

So, if you don’t believe me, next time you are watching the sunrise and you are feeling content, try to think of a regret you haven’t moved on from. Then you’ll be able to experience the true beauty of the sunrise.

 

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A Tear

The rapids of the river move with the intentions to cause harm. Anger flows through ever crystal clear drop of water. Waves continuously crashing into surrounding obstacles, wishing to obliterate it. With nothing able to calm down this unmanageable beauty of nature, it continues to create further disruption towards the other beauties around it. Its anger savagely ripping apart bull-sized boulders, cleanly cutting apart the roots of nearby trees, and eroding the soil on either side with ease.

The river howls and cries, but its unknown whether, it howls with frustration, or whether it cries in despair. To any ear the emotion of despair and frustration sound the same. Flowing emotion, thought to only cause harm, looked at further, could seem as if it’s searching for help.

Slowly, clouds begin to concentrate over the moving body of water. Dark clouds move above the river with an objective to rain. The clouds cry, they cry relentlessly. They cry with great emotion. They cry with sympathy towards the river. They cry in order to help a fellow friend.

Its tears create a rippling upon the water it lands on. The strong downpour drowns all sound of the rivers howls and cries. Suppressing the woes and pain of the river, the rain creates a surface-cool on the, once, rampant river. It feels the tears connect with its soul; its core. Calming down to show its worried friend, that they’ve helped. Although a peaceful appearance is given, the river still moves with great pace. Unknown to the river itself; unknown to its nature-friend, the clouds, why.

Why does the river still move with such intensity? Is it because it’s trilled to know that someone cares? Maybe. Or is it because the tears caused only a surface-peace and the anger or despair remains underneath the calm and collected surface? Either way, the chilled appearance has stopped its unpredictable rampage.

The rain.

It has such a powerful impact on the soul. The said “tears of God” possess the strength to suppress the strongest pains. These tears are able to connect with the heart of a soul. They are godly enough to help a desperate, confused friend.

Would we need these “tears of God” to help us relax.

Possibly.

But it wouldn’t be able to connect with our hearts. Never will it be able to; for we aren’t close to being a force of nature. We’re on a lower status compared to the rain. There’s no way we can help the tears created by clouds with their problems.

Yet, we can use our tears, our emotions, our hearts, to help those we can relate to. For if one of our tears, filled with true emotions, were to land upon someone we sympathized with, the impact would be extraordinary. They would forget about their own pain and ask why you are crying. They ask because your concern has traveled into their hearts. Your concern suppresses their pain to the point they will start to concern themselves with what’s bothering you. The feelings of sympathy given off of a single tear will be enough to touch someone’s heart.

Now the true question is: would you use your tears to help show others in deep pain, that their pain matters, that you care for them, that, your tears, will be enough to connect with, their, hearts.

 

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