What is Beauty ?

Many people thrive to become beautiful and contain beauty in their lives. We look for beautiful things for our home, clothes, garden, partners, appearances and many other aspects of our daily routines. Many young women aim to become more beautiful by means of using makeup, fashion or in more extreme cases plastic surgery...same can be said about men as well. I was always fascinated with beauty and beautiful things, naturally our eyes will always gaze at something pretty rather than unattractive. However I was always the girl that would rather look at nature around me than people, I would rather look at the sunlight peeking through the leaves than a pretty jacket someone has.

The world is changing as people are becoming more materialistic and forgetting to appreciate the simple things around them. Buying and getting things can make us happy and for some, not having the things other people have can make them upset...what does that say about our society as a whole?

Being humble is the answer

As someone who struggles with depression since a very early age, I've tried finding ways to cope with my daily self hate and emptiness. The meaningless need to be better than others, more beautiful and successful. However I have come to realize none of those things matter as I'm only making myself hate my life more. So I decided to stop my mind racing, thinking of the past and the future, I decided to stop my thoughts and look at the scenery around me.

The beauty in the sun,
The beauty in the moon,
The beauty in day,
The beauty in night,
The beauty of leaves falling on the ground,
The beauty of clouds in the sky,
The beauty of rain,
The beauty of natural sounds,
The beauty of my human body,
The beauty of real , not man-made things.

I've always had a love and hate relationship with my photography work, feeling as though the images aren't edited enough or more organized. However I can now put a filter to my image and think to myself " wow this looks beautiful" without the need of spending hours in editing one image. Not trying to perfect everything and making the scenery look different to what it actually is..and that's what I did with these images.