Shining Thru

Treasures of the heart, breathe in soft and strong,

Clear and smooth they glide into your soul.

Crystals glisten from the depths of inside

Shining through your eyes, bright and clear.

The happiness, laughter, and most of all love.

The treasures….The things that bring you to life…that make you shine

The things that make life worth living.

Things that make you brighten no matter how hard life is at the moment

No matter what kind of day you have had…these are the things of importance.

The things we should remember, always.

What is life without the love and comfort of someone close to your soul?

Someone who’s love you can feel and breathe?

The person who completes your thoughts, laughs with you, and loves you?

These are the treasures too quickly forgotten.

I wish we could all slow down and remember the things that really matter in life…the little things that sometimes get taken for granted.    Sometimes we deserve to take some time off from work and all of the every day stresses to just simply enjoy the gifts of love and friendship….the gifts of nature’s beauty, and the time we are allowed to spend in it all.  I think that as the younger generations continually get use to instant gratification, the things that really make life worth living are being left behind…first children today are losing the appreciation of hard work and responsibility….what will it be next?  I wish we our society pressed upon everyone the true treasures of the heart instead of material goods and casual sex appeal.  I wish we could tell them that there is more to life than fitting in…I wonder if these are things a person needs to learn for themselves as they grow up….or if society really could change the goals of our youth if they pressed things in the media other than what they do now.  I have to believe that the media is very effective in making young people think about certain things…thinking some things are more important than others.  I just hope that in the process of growing up the younger generations will figure out their own set of priorities instead of the ones that people and the media set up for them.  I hope they are able to find the true treasures of the heart.

What is love?

Is it hanging on, or letting go?

Is it deciding, or going with the flow?

Should we look for it, or let it come?

Is it all passion, or will there be hurt and fun?

How do we know when it’s come?

And how do we keep it once we have it?

Love is a large question, linking your heart, mind, soul, and life with another person.  If you fall in love, you will be changed.  It’s one of those things that cannot be undone, you can not wish it away, and it will always be there, even if you have to move on.  If you are lucky enough to stay with the one you love, your life will always be intertwined with another.  I hope we can all find our love and keep it close to our hearts.

Is beauty really in the eye of the beholder?  I once had a teacher that posed the question, What is beauty?  The discussion eventually led to the question, Does beauty exist?  His argument was that  if beauty is really in the eye of the beholder, then it doesn’t have a definition and without a definition, it could not exist….there will be no surprise here to find out that not only was he a Literature teacher but also had a genius IQ.  Although I think he only played devil’s advocate in our many round table discussions in class, it does pose an interesting question.

What is beauty?  Just because something or someone is beautiful to me, doesn’t mean it will be to the person standing right next to me at the same moment.  I personally love scenes in nature.  For me finding beauty in nature brings a type of inner peace.  I also have a lot of friends that would rather never go where there isn’t a paved path, for them there are other things that bring that same inner peace. 

I think that true beauty lies on the inside, even when you see something beautiful it brings a certain feeling of awe and wonder that leaves you knowing that it is beautiful.  Of course a lot of people claim to believe that the beauty of people lies on the inside, but until recently there wasn’t anything in pop culture that preached this concept to the younger generation.  I am thankful that there is now a TV show out called “True Beauty.”  This is a show with hidden challenges to measure the good qualities or inner beauty of the contestants on the show.  The only thing that I don’t like about the show is that they do also consider outer beauty…how would the results be changed if they were only looking at the hidden cameras to see how people act towards one another and how they act in the situations they are put in?  They have already decided that the people there have outer beauty qualities, so why continue to judge that?  I think it would be interesting for them to only judge the inner beauty qualities; but again, what is true beauty?

There are qualities of beauty that I think most people can agree on, but I do not believe that beauty can ever have a true definition.  If beauty was scientific, it would lose the emotions and feelings attached to it, it would instead rely on logic and reason.  To me the loss of the emotion I feel when I see something truly beautiful would be a tragedy.  If it’s a person, a waterfall, a painting, or a music composition, I am glad that my heart is open to the emotion of beauty these things hold.  All of these things have stirred that feeling of awe and wonder of beauty inside of me at one time or another; that feeling that makes you wonder how it’s even possible that something like that could exist.  I hope that everyone is blessed with this feeling of beauty in their life.