Hey there, beautiful people! As you may have noticed on my Instagram, I'm still posting for the #30DaysOfBeautyChallenge, and I wanted to tell you a bit about it and, hopefully, make you do the same. Reading Phoenix LeFae's Walking in Beauty, I started to rethink many things. about such a topic.
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The quality or aggregate of qualities in a person or thing that gives pleasure to the senses or pleasurably exalts the mind or spirit.A particularly graceful, ornamental, or excellent quality.
Margaret Wolfe Hungerford said in Molly Bawn, (1878) that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so there's not a single definition or idea of what is beautiful, and there will never be one. Thank the Gods, don't you think? Otherwise, you wouldn't have the right to find it when you want to.
The world has been a crazy place for a long while, but since last year and the beginning of the pandeic it has been chaotic as fck. It's easy to forget the good things in life, let the negativity, fear, anxiety, stresss, depression, and memories take their toll on us, and the media aren't doing much to help more than spreading the fear policy. However, there is still beauty out there.
A few days ago, I was talking with a fiend I made at the end of 2020. It took me around 3-4 years to get over a toxic relationship, and even before that I had a hellish kind of youth that included stress, insomnia, suicidal thoughts, and more. I felt I had to make it up to my mind after so much damage, that I need to repair as much as possible, and I told him that, after those quite difficult times, I wanted to heal through the beauty I missed during that time.
I'm making it a mission to find something beautiful every single day, no matter if I post it or not (but I try to do it very often!) to keep myself okay, fine, happy, and in a constant state of awe. If I alone can define what beauty is, then I can cure myself by giving pleasure to my senses, by recognizing the grace outside and inside of me.
The #30DaysOfBeautyChallenge was supposed to be that, a 30 days thing, as another friend told me, but it evolved into something bigger, something more important, and I honestly like the path it took. Beauty is so overlooked, dismissed, and judged as superficial, that we should reinvidicate it. It's not just something we like, but something that feeds us, inspires us, and heals us. It doesn't matter what kind of beauty it is as long as it does those three things.
And what is this about being a Beauty Advocate? Simple: Someone who has done the #30DaysOfBeautyChallenge and wants to take it to the next level, posting beautiful things just for the sake of it, to bring more of it to the world, to feed, inspire and heal others and themself at the same time.
A Beauty Advocate can see the beautiful among the mundane, and recognizes its importance. It's not about toxic positivity, but about finding hope in the middle of the storm, and accepting that even the storm itelf is beautiful in a way, no matter how harsh it can be for us. In the end, there are people who like the storm, and who are we to Criticize?
If you think this is something you want to do, be my guest and go through the #30DaysOfBeautyChallenge and let beauty change you for the better. I'm sure you will enjoy the experience. It's the first time I speak about something like this, but not the last one. That I can promise you.
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