Look Beyond What's Beautiful
A street artist I’ve admired is posting photos of the homeless he sees on the streets of NYC. For years, I’ve loved the larger-than-life hearts, full of small hearts, he draws on the buildings I love with all of my heart. I’ve posted snaps of them, hoping to spread the beauty he’s seeded across my path. When I saw his latest view of our city, my admiration grew.
Each shot, and there’s a lot, is real. No angle tilts them and no filter fades them. There’s no attempt to make them appear artistic. Hearting one after another, I commented on what a beautiful thing he was doing. Then two days passed, and I felt something different. I was sick of seeing them. Jarred by that emotion, I saw how my mind wanted to look away from what disturbed it. It railed against this incursion on my feed, which I’d set up to view beautiful things that inspired. Why should I have to look at what it hurt to see?
My heart piped up and answered. Not looking won’t make them disappear, and only looking at what’s pretty won’t solve the problem. That led to another thought, and I turned to what isn’t pretty inside of people, which I'm familiar with. I've spent the last few years looking intently at that stuff inside of me. Pushed by circumstances, I stopped whitewashing my life and confronted one deeply embedded emotion after another, to clear out every negative feeling by healing the wounds below them. I’m not done, but I’m here to say that anyone who claims it’s better to man up and get on with it is mistaken. Buried feelings come back biting, to sabotage anything new being built.
Neither they nor the homeless will just go away, no matter how much is constructed over them. If we want to improve this life, we have to stop looking away from what’s been broken. Exterior beauty will distract for a second, until the next beautiful sight springs up, but eventually no distraction will stop a person from buckling under what's inside of them. Trust me. Look deeper, no matter how hard it is to see what you’ve hidden. Face it and heal it. Then only pure beauty will be embedded inside and emanate out of you, and this world needs that.
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With, In & For LOVE…
