“Tell me something beautiful”

MADISON GEHRING
Jul 27, 2017 · 2 min read

“Tell me about something beautiful”

Reading the prompt I thought of a several things the world emphasizes as beautiful. Sunsets, laughter, models of skinny, flawless women etc… You don’t need me to tell you these things are beautiful, you already know. I could fill this paper with color schemes in the sky and contagious laughter coming from blemish free models, but I won’t. I think that finding beauty that is hidden away from just a laymen once over is more worthy to write about. I find a blank page beautiful. A page so white it hurts your eyes if you look to long and makes writers scared of the potential, or lack thereof, it can hold . I find it stunning that words, 26 letters, can be combined into millions of combinations in order to fill the page. Not just to fill the page but inspire the page, bring the page to life. This bleached tree is now the constitution to a new country, a promise to a faraway lover, or a secret that’s been waiting to be shared. I find words beautiful in their impact on humans. The way someone says a certain word, fluctuates their voice and strains one word more than another in a sentence makes for the receiver to respond differently. I even find it beautiful that if I were to write about the sunset and all the beauty that the sky holds, my description would be totally different than someone else writing about the same exact sky. The interpretation of beauty differs in each person and in each personality. Find your own beauty and find the beauty in everything. Right now it might just look like a white, taunting page, but look further, put words and work into it. It might just turn out to be beautiful.

MADISON GEHRING

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