I’ve been looking at houses for the past weeks. It was joy combined with sorrow. Some were so beautiful and grand from outside, but when I looked at them carefully, I noticed that they weren’t so great. Their windows were screaming for repairs, the kitchen’s cabinets needed to be replaced, the floors desired a touch of wax.
Yes, they were just like those people beautiful from the outside, but rotten on the inside.
It made me wonder how many of us are attracted by the physical beauty. Too many… But what is a beautiful face or a sexy body without a beautiful heart?
To really know someone or something, we should look farther than the polished exterior. We should try to know them without cosmetics. We should try reaching and connecting with the soul, and only after everything has been checked twice, only then we should conclude.
Adding a new dress, a new hairstyle, making new friends, traveling to new places, changing jobs, houses, partners, do not change who we are. If we don’t leave something better behind us, if we don’t try to improve what is shabby, if we don’t invest in making an old relationship work, if we don’t snap out of our virtual reality and see the world as it is, we will only pass through life. We will not create something to be proud of. Even if life is nothing but a dream, we should strive to make it a beautiful dream. Even if life is reduced to just one day, we should make that day count. Love a little, play a little, and make someone smile a little. By giving only a small part of ourselves we will see that walls build around unreachable castles will fall, gates will open, and new experiences will enrich our understanding of the world.
I haven’t had much time to dedicate to my friends. I am sorry for that. But this doesn’t mean that they are forgotten. I try leaving a message for them every day to tell them that they are still in my heart. I tend to believe that all the messages received are intended to make me understand that their lives are busy as well. Life is crazy; it is busy. We don’t have enough hours in a day to do all that we’d planned. But giving just a little bit of ourselves back to the world in the form of kindness or a listening ear, it counts more than thousands of gifts.
We should try to leave this world a better place than we found it.
Love,
Carmen Monica
Carmen Monica Oprea 