True Beauty - A Different Perspective PDF

True beauty When most people think of the word "beautiful", they think of models and celebrities. I must say I was one of them. I wanted to be much skinnier, have fuller lips, or eyes that were blue not grey. My friends and I could talk for hours about how we wanted to be tall and skinny, with perfe...

True beauty When most people think of the word "beautiful", they think of models and celebrities. I must say I was one of them. I wanted to be much skinnier, have fuller lips, or eyes that were blue not grey. My friends and I could talk for hours about how we wanted to be tall and skinny, with perfect suntanned skin like models. Now my ideas have changed. The day that I discovered what true beauty really is, I was with my parents and little brothers at a cafe. As I was studying the people around, I suddenly saw a woman with the half-dozen children (all about the same age). She was sitting at a table two tables away and I could look at her without her knowing. The mother had an ageless quality about her. I could tell that when she was young, she had been very good- looking. Her skin was light brown, and soft-looking, she had light wrinkles around her eyes. Her thick dark- brown hair, greying slightly, was pulled back in a ponytail. She was wearing casual clothes, but that was not why she looked so beautiful to me. When she smiled, it was like all the good things in the world came into being. It was full of love and light and happiness. When her children spoke to her, even the two-year-old, she listened as if nothing else in the world mattered more than hearing about the game they had just played. The two-year-old had ice cream all over her face, and the mother just kissed her nose. She didn't get angry when her daughter got ice cream on her nice clothes. The love and kindness of this woman shook my world and all my understanding of beauty. She generated warmth like the sun, and her children were little planets circling around her, bathing in her warmth. Instead of wishing to be like the skinny model, I now wish to be like that Mexican mother -- full of light and happiness. She makes a difference in her children's lives. Instead of making them feel bad about themselves, she makes them feel great about everything. That is true beauty. She made my life different too.