What is Beauty?

Urban Dictionary states that Beauty is a thing seldom seen. It is held by all within the soul it lies, waiting to come out to the surface, but it can only be found if someone is sharing your soul with you. Beauty is suppressed by the evils of the world. Only love can bring beauty out. Once seen, beauty never hides again. Not even hatred can deny beauty of it's true design. Beauty, although possessed by all by few and fewer yet will ever see one of the most beautiful sights - the beauty held by you.

So does that mean that even when I wake up in the morning and my face is greasy, my breath smells atrocious, and my hair is in a knotted mess that I'm beautiful because someone is sharing my soul?

What about my single friends? My best friend and I are really close and I would say that we could "share a soul" but I know that just because I think that she's pretty, isn't enough for her. Luckily, she doesn't have self-esteem issues and will read that definition and say that it's crap.

Miss Piggy says,"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”

There are days when I wake up and get ready for work, and as I look in the mirror I think,"I look pretty today." Unfortunately, those days are few and far between. Most days, I'm lucky to have clean pants to put on and time to even do my hair.

This week, I haven't been able to find my blow dryer or my flat iron, so up in a pony tail my hair goes. Don't even ask how someone could lose their blow dryer and flat iron in their own home. It happens. Don't judge!

I like to think that beauty comes from the inside. Cue the sappy instrumental music here. I'm lucky that I think that my personality is pretty rockin'.

1 Samuel 16:7 - "The Lord does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart."

My best friend is a news reporter. While a lot of her job is based on talent and passion (which she exudes) but a lot of her job is also based on looks. I am so thankful that I don't have to deal with that as a social worker. One of my favorite quotes from a fellow social worker is,"They don't fix their mullets for me, so why do I have to fix mine for them?" Now, my friend doesn't have a mullet, but she does have a point. My clients care about what I can do for them and how I listen and communicate with their families, not how I look.

I like to think that my personality and my love for people shines through enough to make me beautiful. I don't wear a ton of make-up and I typically don't even take time for my eyebrows.

I'm quirky. I love show tunes. I'm afraid of feet. I enjoy jokes that aren't that funny. I enjoy making people laugh. I love reading books. I love swinging on a beautiful day. I'm clumsy.

But I am Beautiful.