Someone You Love

I guess maybe I should give up some inner sham that I had that this blog was going to be law-related in any way. The only relation to the law it currently has is me serving as it's writer and being a law student. Nevermind that though because I want to say something I find important.

Picture someone that you love. It can be anyone, a sister, mother, brother, friend, partner, daughter, or father or anyone else you can think of.

When you picture them you can see the whole person. You see them in your mind and you smile because they are beautiful. You see nothing wrong with them because you love them for who they are and every part of them that they are made up of.

Now imagine that you are complimenting them on how beautiful their eyes are and they tell you that they don't like the color, or how amazing their hair looks but they always wished it was curlier or straighter.

How can they think this about themselves, they are so beautiful in your eyes that you cannot understand how they could ever be unhappy with anything that makes them who they are.

Now imagine it's you, you're standing there in a mirror and staring at yourself. Do you see how beautiful you are or do you see the things you want to change?

I wish I could see myself through a stranger's eyes because maybe then I wouldn't focus on the things I don't like but I could see myself as the whole of the person that I am. One of the times I felt the most beautiful in my life I was complimented by a complete stranger as I just got out of the shower and had makeup leftover on my face. If a complete stranger can find us beautiful why is it so hard to see the beauty in ourselves at times?

You would never tell someone that you love that you see their flaws because in your eyes they don't have any.

How long will it be before you become someone you love?