2012.
The New Year will be reined
in tonight. I’ve chosen a single word to
base my entire year off of.
Beautiful.
My goal is to see,
and write about, the world’s beauty. I’d
like to also focus on individuals’ unique beauty, as well as come to terms with
the fact that my own natural beauty is from God, and therefore must be suitable
for Him.
I’d
like to start with my inspiration.
I met someone, on a trip I recently took with
Girl Scouts. I was strangely fascinated
with her the moment I saw her. I spent
the next few days getting to know her.
She is very unique, very comfortable with herself, and her form of
beauty astounds me still. While our
beliefs are slightly differently, I respect her very much. She has a close knit family, and I can see in
those huge green/blue/gray glass eyes that she yearns to bring them
happiness. Her heart is golden, and she
treats everyone equally. She wears no makeup;
her hair falls natural and remains her natural color. As I got to know there was a slight envy in my
heart, because I wanted people to see me the way I see her. She is slightly clumsy, awkward, and it all
adds to her undying charisma. She makes
people laugh, and her aura lures people in, leading her to be well-loved. She inspired me. She inspired me to see the beauty in
everyone, in everything, and most of all to find myself. So I did, I tried hard to decide who I was
and what my dreams were, and after a troubling night I decided it wasn’t my
decision. As I gave everything to God, I
became confident in who I am. I realize
now, that me and this girl, we are very different in almost every way, but that
doesn’t mean that one is beautiful and the other isn’t. It simply means our beauty is expressed
differently. I will never forget her,
because I intend on allowing her to be my lifelong inspiration to be myself,
and to never try to be anything else.
She impacted my life in a way nobody has in a long time. All-in-all I’ve learned that every single
person has a story, something that has created who they are now, and every
single person has the choice to keep writing, to create a better version than
who they are now.
Thank you, Rebecca Elizabeth Statum, for changing my
life.
Even the little things count.
P.S. you’re not only phenomenal and stellar,
but also
BEAUTIFUL.
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