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We have been told that beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, that the beautiful ones are not yet born ( will they ever be? ), that there are the beautiful and the damned. Some even say that beauty and brains do not go hand in hand and add that beauty is only skin deep but ugly goes clean into the bone. Well, I dare say that there is beauty in nature, nurture and the things we photograph.

Nurture being the reflection of one’s upbringing. How they carry themselves around. How they do not apologize for being late because they arrived on time only you came in earlier. Do I have to explain nature’s beauty? Look around, those prospering house plants unless you do not have a green thumb ( then again why are you keeping them around ?), sunsets, sunrises, clouds, aurora…

His was not beauty… He had nothing striking but at least he did not fail to see the beauty in other things, and in me. Just a regular guy in jeans and a shirt drenched in axe and body sweat.

Why haven’t we normalized gifting axe as it seems to be the typical guy’s perfume. Even those who do not use it have either used it in the past or know someone who did. If you have zero idea what axe is I would like to be introduced to your kind.

Why are we talking about him on a random day… Ah! I remember he came up because of beauty and even though he lacks it he matches up for it with his dressing. There’s something about people who go the extra mile. Those who do things not for you to notice but because it is second nature to them, how they were nurtured.

There is beauty in the things we photograph; the details that catch our eye hence why I consider phone galleries very personal. They are a physical manifestation of the window to our souls.

If I had the permission to go through someone’s phone, I would start with their memo and see what they take note of. Secondly, I would check their gallery to see what they take pictures of, what they screenshot and what their friends send them. Lastly, I would go through their contact list. I find it hilarious how people choose to spell my name. I thought it was one of the few people can’t get wrong but many times they do. I would also want to know how they have saved me.. a pet name perhaps or my name followed with how or where we met the likes of Lawie hostel or John Bcom or Grace BS for Bible study not bullshit. There’s another kind that saves you with both names. These ones know so many people that they need to particularise. They know you well enough to know both your names. More often you are close friends but they are just not the cheesy ones to save you as Lawie Bff or John fam.

There is beauty in nature, nurture and the things we photograph

mashkiz

What I would not do is pick up someone’s phone and go through their gallery. Remember my friend who told me not to put pressure on people by calling them best friend in F.R.I.E.N.D.S well if you don’t check out that post. Also, she said whatever you see in her phone is your fault because you went looking. She has no password or finger print lock; her phone is an open book but no one has dared explored after such warning.

Love of beauty is taste, the creation of beauty is art

Ralph Waldo Emerson

So much can be said of beauty; It needs a book not a post and few will agree on what is deemed beautiful. I’ll leave it to the quotes that we have mastered through the years. Maybe all I wanted was to add mine for the generations to come.

If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere

Vincent van Gogh