How often have you been excited with a wrapped present, feeling its contours, shaking it, smelling it – only to be disappointed once it is ripped open?
Conversely, there have been times when you have met someone who you did not find at all attractive, but as you have grown to know and like them as a person, they have also grown more physically attractive in your eyes.
First impressions can be deceptive.
People show different faces for all sorts of reasons. For example, they could be shy or unconfident, but this could easily come across as cocky, cold, superior, disinterested or aloof. The same can be said for any first impression, so we should not be too quick to judge.
Likewise, physical appearances can be just as deceptive. Something worn, rough and unpleasing to the eye can hold an inner beauty within.
Often times beauty can be laying dormant or hidden and it can take a certain light to be shone upon it for it to become visible to us, for it to shine out to guide us towards it.
Never underestimate beauty. It can be found in every single thing.
There can be beauty in sacrifice and in obedience, in truth, power, memory – not to mention the physical aspect of beauty.
Beauty is within us all, it is our muse, it inspires us and draws us to love, to appreciation and teaches us to be humble. There is no time that is too dark for beauty to shine through, we just have to look beyond.
Zen musings 