I have some questions for YOU!!!

Thanks for visiting! I know it’s been a gap since the last post, but I PROMISE it was all for good reasons. Anyway, to get your week started off right, I just wanted to share a piece that I wrote recently discussing the concept of “beauty” and “image”. This is always a hot topic with so many different perspectives, so I decided to give my little quick spin on it, via 15-Minute Workout. As usual, read it, share it, and let me know how you feel about it. I appreciate and love you all! Be blessed!

What is True Beauty?

Beauty is truly a sight to behold

An image often told

Spoken of in different settings

But take heed that you don’t let vanity set in

I’m betting

That most people would put them one in the same

Putting value on as high a shelf as acceptance and fame

But who’s to blame?

Consider the world in it’s entirety

TV, radio, and all of the rest of society

A conglomerate that force feeds the message

That beauty is of the reserved variety

Only for a few select

More specifically for those who are the visually elect

Being put up on pedestals

But tell me, what good does it do

When those pillars are subject to collapsing

Falling and subtracting

Self-worth and temporary gloating

The time to shine is quickly floating

Up, up, and away

With the facade of superwomen and supermen

A problem that doesn’t sit with only one gender

With no specific place where it truly begins

And tell me who really wins

The victims are strewn across the landscape

The media is so encompassing

Almost feels as if there’s no escape

And the shape this troubling story takes

Brings even sometimes the most self-assured to have their knees to shake

Because the truth is hard to take

That beauty is no longer in the eyes of the beholder

You’re called to be as beautiful as can be regardless of the road you take

Or how you eventually become false or fake

This pill of beauty is so hard to take

Just as hard to simply fathom

But when this is all that one sees,

How can you be mad at ‘em

We have to break down the set molds

From suburbs to countrysides to ghettos

Need to get it in order in the early stages

Rather than having the epiphanies when we get old

Taking away the necessities for acceptance via tall stilletos

Accompanied by the Gucci bag

Not dumbing it down to wearing du-rags

But the state that we’re in is too sad

So forced to keep up with the Joneses

The image of the high life

Being shown in the highlights

In strong pursuit of this mythical happiness

Consuming all and every bit of yours and my life

And I write

This expression of words

Merely suggesting that this concept of beauty is absurd

On par with overrated

Put on too high of a scale

And our life’s paths are ill-fated

Chasing after things that we are not

Rather than making the most of what we’ve got

Maximizing the many things that we’ve been blessed with

Let me be the first to suggest this:

Take a step back

Look at what you have

Rather than what you lack

Counting haves and discounting the have-nots

The image of beauty is truly within your own mindframe

Trust me, if you look deep within your own stock

You’ll realize that it’s only in your own mind that true beauty stops