BEAUTY

This is such an illusive concept that we go to the worst of all efforts and measures to be beautiful. Who in any case has the right to determine beauty and who sets the standard and why should that person or group of people have such a privilege to detemine what qualifies as beautiful; what do they have or possess that should render them that influencial? I think everyone has their own beauty. Of course I am one of those people guilty of saying one person or another could do with their certain feature aligned a different way or looking differently altogether and I am even guilty of such unfounded criticism on myself. However I realise on the few days that I am rational and non-judgemental and non-caring about the feeble worries of the world that if beauty was a particular thing then we would not be able to differentiate between one person and another and be able to identify a character or trait that we loved in the people we love because we would all be beautiful the same way. Beauty I think is being yourself and having the confidence to carry yourself and not be apologetic because after all no one has the choice on how they are born looking like or how their features are set. Its all just a matter of coincidence and genetic influence and therefore no one should be made to feel less than for something that they had no hand in determining. However this does not go for those people who actively engage in unhealthy behaviours of not exercising and eating right but applies to the nature of the person. Lets all stop chasing illusive concepts of beauty and celebrate who and what we have been born to be. The trick after much consideration and probing to find what beauty is I think lies in knowing that because we are different we cannot expect to have features we find desirable in other people we can however embrace and accept our own features and thus enabling othe people to accept them and embrace them as well, because if you are uncomfortable with yourself or something about you, from whom are people around you supposed to learn to accept them other than yourself.

What life means to an almost 21 year old

I think we like to copy to the point of replication but that is not the point of life. For one it may be that for you to get to a forever happy or an almost always happy state you need to go through a couple of WTF years and being able to accept one's fate and overcome whatever challenges it comes with is the definition of living. However a lot of us find ourselves not living our authentic and true life because we are too busy living an exact copy of somebody's life and in the process only delaying the time for us to truly start living our own lives, thus people dying and feeling or their loved one's they leave behind feeling like they still had a lot to do, because living a shadow life can only make you so happy. Living and life for me is accepting your screw up's changing them if they bother you enough, accepting them if they don't and not being ashamed of them at any time or place, its being able to be in your own skin and not give a rat's ass what the person next to you thinks, its doing not what society expects but what you expect and can proudly and loudly live with and its knowing that karma is a bitch and that a universe does exists that does eventually put things into balance and that is you knowing you don't get away with being bad forever, bad will catch up with you and it won't be so nice and last that we all have our reasons of existence for ourselves and for the universe in which we exist. If you die having fulfilled your personal reasons for existing big up'a for you, however if you die not feeling like you have done something of value personally um sure the universe has gotten its worth of you, and live and let live because not one of us knows how they will die, being precautious does not mean you will not die just that you will probably die in what I would term a boring way e.g. Just sitting down or something despite your efforts to avoid dangerous possible death ways, in any case there is nothing safe about going out into the world because you can only control yourself; nevertheless when the universe can no longer accommodate you, die you will. We shall cry and mourn you for the longest time but we all are in the end destined for the same fate, the best favour you can do yourself is live and try to not be so judgemental because each person has a flaw and no one has or should feel they have the power to grade flaws.
#aspiring to this level of free spiritedness and living