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Years ago I called my grandmother on my first day of college.
Everyone was wearing brands I’d never heard of and hey all seemed to have their hair and makeup done perfectly for 8am classes.
I was different - I didn’t fit in - I wanted to be popular, pretty, admired.
Then she stopped me,
“Find what makes you happy – focus on that.”
"Happiness isn’t going to make my hair look good, abuela,” I snapped at her.
She laughed and I could hear her earrings jingle against the receiver as she shook her head,
"Ay hija, las felices son las bonitas”
[happy girls are beautiful girls]
Then she hurried off the phone to finish cooking dinner.
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I once met a man at a shelter I worked at,
who was blind.
One morning, I greeted him as I walked into the cafeteria and he said to me,
“Well, don’t you look beautiful today!”
I turned around to face him, surprised.
“Ah, you’re wondering how I can say that?” He said.
I smiled and replied ‘yes’.
“I can hear it in your voice, and feel it in the beat of your footsteps. True beauty is something sensed, my dear,
not seen.”
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I hope you reach for the things that make you feel beautiful, dear friends.
I hope you gather them up in abundance, and bask in their glory on days when you feel down.
I hope your beauty regimen includes smiling, laughing, reading and rest -
and that when you think deeply, and feel fully, when you express passion and embrace challenges - that you realize how stunning you truly, truly are.
by @noel_russ
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