Simply put, we all have head of a cookie cutter home, I believe this term aptly defines anything beautiful. It is a label of a way to define beauty so that it might be used and imitated. When beauty has all along been taught and pesented as a thing that just happens naturally.
I was noting this when I was trying to become more beautiful. It was my deepest desire and so, naturally I took suggestions and help from others in the form of a make over. I only realized that I was so very far from the popula ideal of beauty (or the regional cookie cutter look) that it would take more effort than I wanted to muster to become.
So, I felt bad in rejecting the form of beauty that I admired in others to instead keep persuing the path I had stated on in seeking my own type of beautiful.
In high school, a group was determining the recipient of their label of beautiful and I overheard my name mentioned in the selection. I was flattered, but rejected. This was said, "She has one of those athletic bodies. She would make a better example of the kind of girl you find at the gym or something, but not just naturally beautiful," How odd, I had never lifted a weight in my life or even been to a gym. Then, in college at summer band practice in Mississippi the guys in my section were talking about how they liked to march behind meandstare at my butt and legs, itwasactually embarassing, I went "home" and looked in the mirror wondering what they were talking about, Then, My band director asked me one day if I was a runner. Why yes! I had been andonly ran occassionally now, but he said that he could tell. and said that I had "runners legs" whatever they are. In Georgia at a summer camp in Dahlonega (sp?) I had won a leg contest (among other Engineers it wasn't much of a feat though). So, maybe I had beautiful legs but, they were notpurposely intended to be admired, it just happened. Sometimes our beautyfinds popular appeal. but this nuch I KNOW it is pointless to try and become a popular version, and neglect what you are. Someone will see what you are as truly beautiful, but the most important person is yourself.
If I would perscribe any kind of make over,it would start with the inside. oh, now I want to let George Bailey finish it:
What is it you want, Mary? What do you want? You want the moon? Just say the word and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down. Hey. That's a pretty good idea. I'll give you the moon, Mary.
Mary: I'll take it. Then what?
George Bailey: Well, then you can swallow it, and it'll all dissolve, see... and the
moonbeams would shoot out of your fingers and your toes and the ends of your hair...
If you swallow the moon so to speak, then you will radiate all of that internal light and that will be truly beautiful, though originally, I was onnly talking about fixing your perspective to see the beauty that by nature you already have.
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