It is easy to become hard. It is easy to become jaded. With all the darkness there is in the world there is so much light, as well. I would like to think that there is more beauty and goodness in the world than ugliness and evil.

When you go through difficult situations, arduous experiences, ugly things in life, you reach a point somewhere in the processing of it all- you can choose to see the beauty or the ugliness in life- and you make that choice and walk forward with a lens of beauty or ugliness. The easier choice is picking a lens of ugliness. It is easier to see all the negativity in the world. Our egos love to point out the flaws in life, people, and the world. It is harder to choose a lens of beauty. To see the beautiful things in the world takes more effort. At least for me. Some people may be born with a natural ability to easily see the beautiful things in the world. That is a true gift to possess the innate ability to see the beauty first. I would like to think that we are all born like that and then society conditions us to become the opposite, to focus in and pinpoint the negative first. We are taught to see the ugly. We were born to see the beauty.