on the inside.

this is a post from my good friend meg's blog.
it's really great. just like her :)
check out her blog [here] and the post on her blog [here].

When I was little, my ma used to tell me being beautiful on the inside was much more important than being pretty on the outside.  This is insane.  Oozing blood makes some faint.  Bones crack.  The inside is weak.  I had an MRI this week and finally got to see my insides.  They are creepy cool, but battlefields are not beautiful.  Or are they?

MTV, Glamour, that beautiful human Victoria’s Secret model?  The image we can visually process is 98% dead.  That top layer of leather we call skin, and spend $20 billion annually (library.duke.edu) to cover with dust and inorganic colors has no nucleus.  It.Is.Not.Alive. And neither is that head of hair that serves as some people’s glory.  But the dead protects the surviving.  1.5 pounds of skin cells are recycled each year, and every 27 days you are basically looking at a new human shell.  And it is not whole.  In fact, it is full of holes, zillions of pores, all of which mock our inability to see existence.  

Even worse, our skin in not our own.  Lots of little critters make our exterior their cozy jungle vacation without our consent.  I won’t gross you out here, but if you care to know the details….click here.

How in the world can we perceive human exterior to be beautiful while the living organs and open wounds cause our stomachs to recoil?  Where in Darwin’s theory did we revolutionize this twisted mentality? 

I think we still have something right.  That last 2% of the body we can naturally see: the eyes. Maybe the idea that one can see the soul through the eyes is from some dying instinct we have to give homage to the living.

LOOKATME. Straight in the face. Please? I’m basically begging you.  It’s a scary thing for human beings to do.  Maybe we sense that this gesture holds power.  Namaste. (The spirit in me recognizes the spirit in you). Without skin receptors, our brain would not be able to tell if we were being touched or someone else.  Collective unconscious makes a comeback. 

Seriously, I heard it on a TED talk.  

Let’s all work on breaking past this barrier.

Let’s redefine beautiful.  It’s on the inside: beyond what we can process, beyond cells living or dead.  You are positively 100% beauty at your core.  Don’t keep all that beautiful to yourself love, it’d be a shame.

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&&when you kiss her, know that that your lips are searching for that life inside her.