Youth and beauty can be separated quite easily. First, define what you mean by beauty. Is it purely a visual thing? Of course it’s not and neither are you! Beauty is something that moves us, employs all the senses, and therefore stirs the soul. It has little or nothing to do with youth.
For example, is music not beautiful? Aren’t certain luscious aromas and flavors beautiful? Can’t a feeling be beautiful? Aren’t certain thoughts or phrases beautiful? Are specific moments not beautiful? What have these things got to do with youth? Nothing. Absolutely nothing.
Youth and beauty are separable because you are not just a visual object--you are an event, and you have a multitude of beautiful levels. Your ideas, talents, experience, history, struggles and triumphs, are all beautiful, and they have little - if nothing - to do with your looks.
Creative Strategy:
To help you to re-evaluate what “beautiful” means, and to put you back in touch with all of your senses, you need to spend some time expanding what beautiful means to you.
Make a list of ten beautiful feelings, thoughts, sounds, etc, as long as they are not visual in any way. Can you connect your self to this kind of beauty and see the equal-- if not greater depth-- there is in it? If you can, you may want to throw a little party for you and your friends, and get each guest to bring something to celebrate this newfound “sense” of beauty. Beauty is everywhere. You just need to re-define it to really feel it all around you.
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