Did you see the way she looked at me?

[After thinking about it for the 10 seconds it took to dry my hands, I've decided it's a LOT easier to write things on spot instead of noting them for later. That being said, here goes-]

November 28, 2009:
[I was in the mountains, trying not to be killed by a drunk driver on a windy road. Quit scowling.]
I bet mountains and their scenery look like little dioramas, or displays, or something of the like to God. Or airplanes.
I was driving- or rather, passengering- through one of those winding mountain roads and saw these "picture perfect" moments everywhere. Well, or lack thereof, anyway; all depends how you look at them. Quite unconventional moments, to say the least.
The one in particular that left an imprint in my mind was a beige barn with white trim. One of the doors was ripped off its hinge; the bottom left door on the front-facing side of the barn, to give an image. It was a new looking barn and had a few horses several hundred yards away, across the lot. |received a phone call here, stopped for 2 minutes and 16 seconds, and started back again when he hung up. Just for the record.| You could see light coming through the other side.
Anyway, it reminded me of one of those places you see in dreams at... twilight, I guess. You know? Not dark, but at like, 5:00. Not dark, but orange. Glowing in pale light.

...
Eh. I can't really post about this anymore, the thought is gone. xD
The point I was trying to make was that everything looked like it was standing still in time. But it wouldn't be a place you thought about as looking like that, or remembered often. Just one of those places on the planet no one ever thinks about.
But you've been there, and if people left a vapor trail, you could come back later and there'd only be a select few still lingering.

Fast forward to present.

We recently studied Genesis in..
That's right, kids, English class.
My teacher's a bit.. well, we're not going to go there.
But anywho, toward the end of the "unit", we talked about how Adam and Eve saw nakedness as a sin after they learned the difference between good and evil.
I never understood that, and I actually got the privilege of calling my teacher out on not understanding it either [:

[His response was the generic for when he didn't know something: "This is a religious recount, you can NEVER apply logic!" But I thought it was pretty great that I stumped him, anyway.]

Anyway, I thought about it, and society views that sort of "purity" as a sin as well.
Was talking to a wonderful, wonderful friend of mine tonight and he was telling me how he thought a girl was most beautiful with no makeup, in jeans and a t-shirt. And you know, I'm guilty of dressing up for people [a certain person, anyway], but he's really on the right track. We shouldn't love people for their exterior but what's inside it. The expression "love is blind" probably should be a guiding phrase for us all. I think it would save us from divorce, and save us from hypocrisy. [Well, some forms, at least.]
I was thinking a long time ago about if we all looked the same.. and had our personalities intact, but had a simple, plain exterior. Like grey blobs, or something. Then would we love people for who they were?

Maybe.
But that's not necessarily the right approach.

People take their personalities into a physical approach when they decide what to wear. And not in what they wear, necessarily, but how they wear it. This isn't to say all girls who wear makeup are insecure, or all men who wear a-little-too-formal clothes are looking to impress.

[Or all girls who wear pink are humanitarians, or all girls who wear black are Satanists.]

I think, however, we should follow this good man's example. We should find someone who loves us in t-shirts and jeans, we should find someone who loves us when we've cried our makeup off and have run our hands through our hair one too many times.
Someone who loves us when we wake up and someone who loves us when we fall asleep.

No matter what you look like.

Now, I'm not saying we all should become nudists.. but if you can look at yourself in the mirror in the purest state and know that your significant other- and YOURSELF, for that matter- loves you not REGARDLESS of what they see, but BECAUSE of what they see- well, you're on a good route, and you're probably happy with them. And should be!

Hmm.
/endrant.
And don't take that as a moral thing, that's all my opinion. :D

Anyway, I've been looping the song "Eddie's Gun" by The Kooks for probably the better part of half an hour. Definitely a recommended listen.
I don't think I've found a song by The Kooks I DON'T like. Heh.

*Just realized that the title could be interpreted two ways. SHIT, total accident. xD Now I feel like a cliche. Oh well. It's a lyric, swear.*

That's pretty much it.
Good night, nation.

-CS.
[actual time of posting: 10:00P.]