Try a thought experiment. Pretend you are meeting someone who is you. You don’t know it’s you, it’s just another person, but in actuality their life has been exactly like yours. Their thoughts, feelings, mannerisms, etc, are just like yours. You are beginning the process of getting to know this person.
Would you see beauty in that person?
Honestly, I haven’t thought about this, but it seems interesting. My initial guess is that yes I would see beauty in said person, probably cause I will only have a surface knowledge of this other person and not their complete life story…
Maybe people just project their beauty outward, and hide the ugliness. So we see the beauty of others but not the ugliness it covers. But internally we see the total of our own beauty and ugliness and make a choice of which is stronger.
The Swedish Red Cross was one of the best things to happen this past century (Folke Bernadotte did an excellent job mediating between the Allies and Axis, and for securing the release of many civilian prisoners from Nazi concentration camps) and I love the musicians your country produces. I find a lot of beauty within the country itself, and would find even more within a person who comes from there (except Dredd – ugh).
Honestly, I s’pose it’d be hard to see that which is more than just beauty…something so profound and awe-inspiring that I understand why you can’t see it. But rest assured that everyone else can, and that’s what counts. 🙂
Say hi to Lykke Li for me. Oh, and the girls from First Aid Kit. 🙂
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Maybe you just critisize yourself too much.
Because only the most radiant and gorgeous of people see beauty in everybody, rather than in themselves.
I totally agree. Being humble and modest are good character traits, not bad ones.
Try a thought experiment. Pretend you are meeting someone who is you. You don’t know it’s you, it’s just another person, but in actuality their life has been exactly like yours. Their thoughts, feelings, mannerisms, etc, are just like yours. You are beginning the process of getting to know this person.
Would you see beauty in that person?
Honestly, I haven’t thought about this, but it seems interesting. My initial guess is that yes I would see beauty in said person, probably cause I will only have a surface knowledge of this other person and not their complete life story…
Maybe people just project their beauty outward, and hide the ugliness. So we see the beauty of others but not the ugliness it covers. But internally we see the total of our own beauty and ugliness and make a choice of which is stronger.
I love Sweden.
The Swedish Red Cross was one of the best things to happen this past century (Folke Bernadotte did an excellent job mediating between the Allies and Axis, and for securing the release of many civilian prisoners from Nazi concentration camps) and I love the musicians your country produces. I find a lot of beauty within the country itself, and would find even more within a person who comes from there (except Dredd – ugh).
Honestly, I s’pose it’d be hard to see that which is more than just beauty…something so profound and awe-inspiring that I understand why you can’t see it. But rest assured that everyone else can, and that’s what counts. 🙂
Say hi to Lykke Li for me. Oh, and the girls from First Aid Kit. 🙂
I think I would love myself more if I met myself in the street.
I think you would too x