Just Plain Pretty (Alexis DeHeart's Beautiful Challenge)

by Nouvelle Bardot

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When you open up your embrace, and spread your arms far apart, like a bird taking flight and tilt your head to the heavens, that is what beautiful feels like.

Beauty is not a person, place, or thing. It just is.

Beauty cannot be bought or sold, no matter what anyone says. There may be wars fought over beauty, but you cannot win it.

Its already there for the taking.

For beauty is a state of mind. It is an innate pleasure. Beauty is wellbeing, love, and happiness.

Beauty is also sadness.

When you stand atop a bridge, feeling the cool wind sweep over you, and you look down over the water, and the scene before you, thats beauty.

When you run and splash through the cool ocean waves, without a care in the world, that’s beauty.

Driving down the interstate, with the window rolled down, watching the world fly by instead of listening to the radio, that’s beauty.

Beauty. It’s not a pretty face. It’s just plain pretty.

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Average Reader Rating: 5.0 stars out of 5

  1. Just Plain Pretty (Alexis DeHeart's Beautiful Challenge)

    Nouvelle Bardot's Buddy Icon Nouvelle Bardot

    Posted 8 months ago

    geez, this sounds like a mastercard commercial…

  2. Just Plain Pretty (Alexis DeHeart's Beautiful Challenge)

    SKermitgorf's Buddy Icon SKermitgorf

    Posted 8 months ago

    5.0 out of 5 stars

    I agree, well said.
    LoA

  3. Just Plain Pretty (Alexis DeHeart's Beautiful Challenge)

    Apostrophe 's Buddy Icon Apostrophe

    Posted 8 months ago

    i like how you used more than one example. How you applied it in diffrent ways. like with the bird. that was a great description.

  4. Just Plain Pretty (Alexis DeHeart's Beautiful Challenge)

    Ana Cristina's Buddy Icon Ana Cristina

    Posted 8 months ago

    5.0 out of 5 stars

    There’s a reason those commercials attract so many new cardmembers… I love the simplicity of this.

  5. Just Plain Pretty (Alexis DeHeart's Beautiful Challenge)

    emma jo_234's Buddy Icon emma jo_234

    Posted 8 months ago

    5.0 out of 5 stars

    Beautifully stated. I love words you used to describe this.

  6. Just Plain Pretty (Alexis DeHeart's Beautiful Challenge)

    Geheim Sir Ayita's Buddy Icon Geheim Sir Ayita

    Posted 8 months ago

    wow…i love it… i really thought this would be some dorjy “if you close your eyes you can feel beautiful” thingy and then you said “Beauty is not a person, place, or thing. It just is.” which just got me. amazing it was so true without being typical and you explained it so well without finishing it with “it just is”.....but i think that was beautiful…it just is

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