One has thick, sleek and silky dark hair. When I run my fingers through her hair it feels like silk ribbons in my hand. She can have beautiful braids and her hair swishes when she moves her head.
The other has beautiful curly blonde hair. Her mother spends time putting it into french braids and spraying it with water to help the curls define. It is a gorgeous halo around her head.
The one is always asking me to curl her hair. We try. It stays for 2 minutes and then the sleek silky tresses return.
The other asks me to straighten her hair. We try. It stays for 2 minutes until the humidity hits and then the curly halo returns.
Isn't that the way we all seem to be in life?
What the other has seems more desirable--just because it is different from what we have. What we have been given is perfectly beautiful and desirable but we can't recognize the beauty or enjoy what we have for disappointment in what we do not have.
Life is full of opportunities to accept or change circumstances we live with. Sometimes if we take time to assess what is our lot we may find that it truly is a desirable situation worth cultivating. Sometimes looking at a situation with different eyes helps us to see the beauty of what is already ours.
A curly halo OR sleek and silky.
Both desirable.
Both beautiful.
Equal,
just different.
Both desirable.
Both beautiful.
Equal,
just different.
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