Beautifully Different

#Reverb10 is a blogging initiative that provides prompts each day of the 31 days of December with the intent of reflecting on the past year, specifically 2010, and looking forward to what’s to come in the year ahead.

 

The Prompt

“Beautifully different. Think about what makes you different and
what you do that lights people up. Reflect on all the things that make you
different – you’ll find they’re what make you beautiful.”

Beauty can be anything I want it to be, and can represent any definition I attach to it.  Most people will recognize beauty as a pretty face, stylish hair, well blended colors, attractive figure, and even articulative ability--but only as it compliments the rest of the above mentioned.

Beauty is in the individual--being unique and appreciating nonconformities.  I have nearly 100 different opportunities every day to make someone light up.  It's a challenge to stay positive and smile big while meeting new people who are down on themselves, and down on their lives for one reason or another.  Sometimes I have five seconds or less to make that spec of difference for them.  My hope is that I have done just that--made five seconds easier, happier, and better than the five seconds they had before that.

It takes a lot of patience, persistence, and a realization that everyone is beautifully different to achieve a good five second interaction.  After all, it's contagious--smile at someone you don't know and nine times out of ten, that other person will smile back.

Beauty is in a soft touch, genuine smiles, laughter, and grows as the capacity to love grows.  Beauty is in the eye of the beholder; however, cannot always be seen--it's also heard and felt.  We are each beautifully different by our own definitions and by the definitions by which others bestow on us.