The Most Beautiful: A Simple Simle

Sarah Miller
Micah Robbins
Eng. 1310.126
1 September 2007
The Most Beautiful: A Simple Simile
What is beauty? We have decided that beauty is completely subjective. But there are many things a person can find beautiful to ask a person to decide what in this world is worthy to be deemed “most beautiful” is almost impossible, but it can be done if you use your imagination. Even the simplest things that are put out on display for the world to see can and do get taken for granted. Like, for example, something as simple as a simile. What could be more beautiful than a person who is genuinely and completely, without hesitation, joyously happy?
If you were to ever go outside and just sit down somewhere, maybe at a town square or a busy area, you will see many people walking by you that do not even notice your presence. Some will glance and acknowledge you, but that is it—just a glance, nothing more. And on rare occasion, someone will walk by you, notice you, and give you a polite smile. It seems like people tend to be more attractive when they smile. I tend to remember them more than if they didn’t, and if only for s slight second, I feel somehow connected to that random person, just through a smile. The simplest and easiest act any person can do at any given time is smile.
Smiles are universal; there are no boundaries when it comes to a smile. Everyone knows that, when smile at, you are receiving something warm that cannot always be explained, but it is there nonetheless, and whoever receives this simple gift of caring and gratitude has an innate sense that they are not alone.
Yes, the earth and the skies and many, many material possessions one can have are beautiful, but to say that they are more beautiful than the most simple gift and the most heartwarming act anyone can give would have to be, in my opinion, slightly overrated. Everything, if you look hard enough, has beauty in it and the potential to be the most beautiful thing to any one person in the world.
There are things in this world that just do not have material value. They have something so much more: they have a value that sits somewhere deep within your soul that when you see or feel this thing, it hits that spot. I believe that a smile has the potential to achieve that goal with every single human being (not to mention animals) on this earth. Maybe someone thinks that a smile can be intimidating and, for some reason, unapproachable, but I just cannot see that point of view. The most beautiful thing on this earth, even more beautiful than the amazing views of Victoria Falls, is the almost effortless act of smiling at one another.