Where You Find Beauty, You Find Inspiration (You Are The Person To The Next Of You)

If you want to gauge the type of person you are, start looking around you. Not just at the people, but the places and things you bound yourself to. We often surround ourselves with what makes us comfortable and what brings us joy. And for the most part, this is a good thing; as long as you're not blinded by this alternate life you chose to live. But more times than not, we are.

It is easy to become overly comfortable with the surroundings, schedules, and people that accompany our lives. With this comfortability, partners reliability. There is nothing wrong with this reliable life most choose to lead. But this is also how time slips away. This is how three days can turn into three years. We zone out; living in the oblivion of our own pleasure; then all of the sudden you're all old and shit.

But surrounding yourself with bodies of motivation, movement, and most importantly, beauty, will chaperone inspiration. Inspiration slows time down. I think it's because time knows you're doing trying important work; so she gives you more.

I always thought I could be the person I wanted to be no matter my surroundings. The first individual that came to mind was Martin Luther King Jr. MLK chose to show the world peace, even though all the world gave him was hate. He was able to hold his values of resistance under heavy fire. But what I underestimated was not only the strength of his inner circle (his surroundings), but also the years and years of practice in finding himself he had over my youth in trying to accomplish the same. Only time can forge an individual's honest nature - but not time alone- time consciously working to build the person you are into the person you want to be. This means there is no time to zone out.

And since we don't live in a field of nothingness, time spent around encouraging and motivating figures affects our growth immensely. Think of your existence as a tree, the people, places, and things we circle ourselves with are our environment. These figures can be acidic or humidifying; detrimental or favorable. But unlike trees, we have the ability to move away from what is halting our growth and towards what will pull us to the sky.