beautiful

There is something very beautiful about humility.

There is also something very beautiful about eager curiosity.

An ever-learning and growing person is always undoubtedly attractive.

There is also something quite enchanting about child-like fascination manifested in a full-grown person.

These are all just simple things that we were once possessively filled with as children. But we lost all this charm and beauty along the way. We lost the ability to charge forward like we were right all the time and yet to blink in silent, unworded innocence when we were sharply pointed to be in the wrong.

Now we aggressively defend ourselves with way too many words and take intrepid steps forward like we're waiting to be told we're wrong. We are no longer brazen and of good courage. We are afraid and whatever courage we have in us is falsely manufactured for appearances' sake. We no longer seek to discover and play the treasure hunt. We want to know only because we have to.

We are not real and beautiful anymore and how sad that is.