Who's Beautiful?

"If the horse were to say joyfully, "I am beautiful," one could put up with it. But certainly you, when you say joyfully, "I have a beautiful horse", are joyful about the good of the horse." sec 6. In other words, are we beautiful because of the horse of because of who we are? Many times we judge ourselves and others by the material things they have. People that have more become someone who we consider better than another person. Some material things we may have identify factors for which we may be considered. If we have something new, we are looked upon as someone who has something new and therefore receive more attention, and not as a person like anyone else, but rather someone who simply has some sort of difference from a normal person. Therefore we like different, and prefer to look upon something different, but that at the same time is something which brings us pleasure.

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When we are looked upon for what we have and not by who we are, we are missing out on the true meaning of life. Anyone can get an object such as the one that takes our attention in many cases, but few times is that "object" within ourselves, which is truly special. When you give qualities you think are yours to an object, you are only qualifying the object, and does not show who you really are. In order for us to be named after a quality we consider we have, the only thing we can really do is be ourselves, and that way we will be known by what we really are, not by what we name things we believe represent us.