Beauty tears apart hearts. Beauty tears apart nations. Beauty starts wars. Beauty splits families. Beauty is powerful. Beauty is something we all want. Beauty is something some people give their lives away for. Beauty is something some people die for.
And yet the gift we were intended to be given was something entirely different than what our society has transformed it into. The gift of beauty is, and was meant to be, something within us, something that radiates out, not something we paint on, work off, or slip into.
I didn't understand this for most of my early life. And it made me a very, very sad person. To make a long story short, I eventually figured out what real beauty was, and it set me up for a much happier life.
I'm not going to say much more on beauty, except for this disclaimer: make sure you find out what type of beauty you're chasing before you put energy into cultivating it.
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