This is beautiful-- Baloo, The Jungle Book
This gem comes to us after the final battle with Shere Khan and in response to Bagheera's very fitting eulogy to the character who made a huge sacrifice during it. Again as with Day 79, I will not go into details because it would be a huge spoiler for those who haven't seen it.
This is a very simple quote yet it is spoken over 100 times in one lifetime. How many times can you recall saying this about something or someone, whether it was a card, or a landscape, maybe a movie or perhaps someone's actions? I know I cannot count how many times I have said it myself over the years. It is such a powerful yet very simple statement that is made more powerful by what someone says is beautiful because what one person says is beautiful may not be what another person thinks is beautiful. For instance, let's go on a limb here and say one person thinks that a lake with the brightest green trees and calm waters is a beautiful scene, but another person thinks that same lake with all sorts of waves dancing across the water and leaves of red, amber, and gold is the most beautiful sight they've seen.
We could also go out on another limb and talk about a human's looks. Where one person sees someone who has long blonde hair blue eyes and is skinny as the models in the advertisements beautiful, another may feel someone who's dark haired and dark eyed and has a bit more weight to them as even more so. Yet, looks change over time and your personality and what you beleive in really doesn't. All it takes is one instant in your life to swing your weight either way. What we see on TV or in advertisements is what society wants us to believe is beautiful looking. One day you could be that skinny TV model and go through some life changes that cause you to put on extra weight or you could be that overweight person and lose weight and become a TV model. Yet to your friends and loved ones who know you for you, they would still find you beautiful no matter what you looked like because they know you for who you are inside. I am NOT going to lie. I am kicking myself as I am writing this because I myself have struggled with my weight and my looks a lot over the years. I will admit there are are plenty of times where I do not feel beautiful both inside and out for whatever reason, even when my best friend and others have said that I am and I hope that one day my soulmate will too. Sometimes I wish I were one of those skinny TV models, but then I get reminded that I don't have the build. My bone structure is not made to be that small or skinny and I also get reminded that in the past a more heavier-set woman meant they were more likely to have children that would last well past childhood, something that was coveted up until at least the early-mid 1900s. When Marilyn Monroe was alive, she was considered the most beautiful woman on earth. She herself would not be considered beautiful by today's standards because of her size and sultry face and would probably be photoshopped just as many of the models today are.
Thankfully, society is starting to take a turn away from what someone looks like and its all about what they're like on the inside: how they treat or speak about their friends, how they treat or speak about their family how they treat or speak about their bosses, how they treat or speak about animals, how how they treat or speak about even themselves. Just because a person may look "society beautiful" on the outside, they may not be as beautiful inside. Likewise, a person may not look "society beautiful" but they may be the most beautiful with a heart of gold inside.
So it all really depends on your definition of beautiful it could be from the heart, as Baloo said, or it could be what it looks like. Whatever you find beautiful, always remember it comes from within and from the heart and Keep Cooking With Character!
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