What is real beauty?

The sunshine has been beating down amongst the breezy wind, painting smiles on people's faces and a summer glow beams all around. For the first time in a while I went for a casual walk in the country side with only a t-shirt on....obviously I was carrying my coat...just incase, but the beauty that shone out to me was magnificent. The green velvety hills were lush, the brook was glittering and the tree's looked alive. It was gorgeous, and it was real beauty.

I wondered about all of the things that people would call 'beautiful'. Celebrities, fashion, diamonds, all of those material possessions are seen as beautiful and I'd be lying if I said I didn't think they were either. But, the natural things that are free....grass, trees, water, sunshine, mountains, flowers....they really do perk you up, they make me grin exactly like the Cheshire cat!...I have to remind myself most of the time that I really do look silly and I'm on my own so I just look mad.

I found out that the word 'beauty' from Latin, means 'to be happy' and just from that I can see how nature really does mean beauty because nature is a mood changer. Do you notice how when it rains you may feel a bit down? (I, on the contrary love the rain, but it still changes my mood-just to a more positive one) When the clouds clothe us in a robe of boredom and depression, that is fairly noticeable, isn't it? The snow just gets everybody excited and pushes us right back to our playful childhood...if it doesn't, something is wrong.

Beauty is out there in the world we live in, it means something deeper than what's just on the surface and it is a free gift to us. So, let's notice the real beauty of this world and just enjoy it!

The colours of traffic lights

I was cruising along on the bus this afternoon, staring at the many road signs and obstacles that passed by when I found myself hooked onto the traffic lights. I wondered to myself- as I do so often - why traffic lights feature the specific colours: Red, Amber and Green. We all know what they mean, red for 'stop', amber for 'get set' and green for 'go'. But have we had too much time to think about it and question, why these colours have these meanings? It may seem obvious for the colour red as it connotes danger, and perhaps even the end of a life, it is something where you would simply 'stop' because there is danger. However, I gave the colour amber more thought, because i couldn't understand what image/message it conveys. I was given the question about what colour is amber... is it orange or yellow? This twigged off more brain energy...the bit that I had left...amber hasn't made up its mind as to whether it's orange or yellow and so it is neither 'stop' nor 'go' but something in between. Finally, the colour green links to nutrition, health and growth and therefore this promotes the idea of the start of something, leading on to the word 'go'.

This is what I have decided makes up the colours for traffic lights, whether it's right or wrong, maybe another day I will find out.