Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

We have heard this one all our lives, but only a few years ago did I really appreciate what it actually meant.

In the past, I took it to mean that you can be beautiful to those who love you.

So you might not be a beauty queen to the masses, but those who are close to you, see you as beautiful.

I was then shown an alternate meaning that might actually be more profound.

If you take something beautiful and lock it in a safe, and nobody sees it, it stops being beautiful.

Beauty is not the object, but the image it creates in other people's minds.

The person who is born beautiful is not the one who is blessed by beauty. It's the people who see her who are blessed with beauty.

M Parak 2015