Vanity

Vanity is an integral part of our egos.. The need to look good an essential part of our psyche.. We can take in our stride being rude.. Or abusive.. Or losing our temper.. But that blemish on our face.. The loss of hair.. A single wrinkle can give us sleepless nights.. One we carry over lifetimes.. One we burn away.. A strange belief system followed by each one of us.. What if we are gentle and compassionate.. What if our being is suffused with love.. Would that beauty surpass physical ugliness.. Looks are ridiculed, not an ugly temperament.. Appearances are judged before who you are.. Physical impressions the touchstone for a complete personality.. So our entire life is spent in keeping up with the woes of how we look, what we wear.. Trying to fit into the current fads.. And the soul withers in vain silence to be recognized.. Acknowledged.. Understood.. By us.. Skimming over a peripheral life.. We race towards completion unendingly.. We write a beggar off in our mind.. Hardly ever even look at the help.. The rich and the beautiful are ogled and aped.. Try to seek the beauty within yourself and others.. For that reflection heartens and satiates.. Helping the soul walk another step towards the light.. Instead of remaining stuck in the quicksand.. Or circling in a whirlpool of stagnancy.. Become the tipping point of a changing belief system.. Have the courage to just be.. For therein lies the truth.. Therein resides divinity..

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