It happens in our everyday lives-- the urge to look at yourself in the mirror when you wake up or in the bathroom when you brush your teeth. It's an urge that creeps up on our shoulder and is desperately tapping you, waiting for your attention.
Why does this urge exist? Is it our 2015 beauty standards? How do we even affiliate ourselves with what is considered "beautiful"? Is it something you can see? Something you can touch, smell, hear or taste?
Beauty is defined as "the quality present in a thing or person that gives intense pleasure or deep satisfaction to the mind, whether arising from sensory manifestations (as shape, color, sound, etc.), a meaningful design or pattern, or something else (as a personality in which high spiritual qualities are manifest)." Under this definition, beauty could be understood in many ways. Actually, I'd like to think that beauty can be found using any of the five senses.
Smelling the flowers that your significant other, friend or colleague gives you is a way to feel beautiful. You feel appreciated, loved and flattered! Who doesn't love this feeling? Today, compliments on physical features are thought of as the only ways to feel beautiful, but receiving flowers and smelling the sweet nectar that comes from them is almost as sweet a compliment. You shouldn't always feel the need to be complimented on your looks-- you should be complimented for your work ethic, your intelligence, and your quirkiness, too.
Monday mornings, as a whole, are the most terrible thing that ever happened to human beings. Especially if you have an 8 a.m. class. Turning your coffee maker on and hearing the sound of delicious lightly roasted or medium roasted coffee beans being turned into liquid for you gives you a sense of satisfaction you might not be so aware of. Perhaps you always get your coffee after it's already been made for you. Try making it yourself, it gives you a sense of independence and it makes you feel like you can do anything on a Monday (or any other day) morning.
Bags packed, trunk loaded with snacks and friends in your car seats. It all means one thing: road trip! There is so much to see in the world, everyone says. However, if you ever find yourself on a highway or very deserted road in the middle of nowhere, roll your window down and let the wind caress your face. It might not do your hair much good, but trust me, you want the wind to touch your face. You'll automatically find yourself smiling and enjoying where you are in life in that moment. It makes you feel free and capable of taking on the world.
The sound you hear when opening a pack of your favorite food--whether it's be a drink, meal, chocolate or candy-- is music to your ears. However, the main act is taking the first bite of this food that you've been wanting to have for God knows how long. Whether you've been waiting all day or all of five minutes, it couldn't taste better. You want to savor those moments when you're at a loss for words after tasting something you're enjoying, even when you thought that maybeyou wouldn't. On the other hand, you should also remember the moments when you try something you find to be extremely horrible. Your taste buds make you you, there is no one else that has the same taste in food and snacks as you. If that's not beautiful, I don't know what is!
There is beauty in working on a painting, drawing, play or piece and finally seeing the final product of it. Only you know how much you have invested into this, how passionate you are about it. There is beauty in seeing the work of others beside Mother Nature's. You could be on top of Mount Everest, enjoying the view after climbing all the way up, or sitting on your carpet, looking at the painting you've been working on for weeks. Either way, you are becoming beautiful inside. Your sense of accomplishment or gratefulness makes you a beautiful human being.
It happens in our everyday lives, the urge to look at yourself in the mirror when you wake up or in the bathroom when you brush your teeth. It's an urge that creeps up on our shoulder and is desperately tapping you, waiting for your attention. Ignore this annoying tapping, let yourself look at other things in front of you or within you. You do not need a mirror to find beauty within you or in life, you just need what was already given to you: your five senses.
