Sometimes just seeing a "younger" (like someone in their 30's) person sitting and doing what they do can be an "enriching" experience. I have a lot of "younger" students -- still with lots of effusive energy, high hopes, and an impenetrable sense of "hope." Most of them work hard for the grades they get; most have high ideals and a strong sense of personal integrity.
And that youth, in many ways, is absolutely beautiful. It is the essence of "life" on earth. It is a soft and driving force of life, permeating and enriching everyone who is close to it. It is not a "sexy" beautiful -- but rather a reverential kind of beautiful. It is the "Shinto" sense of life that makes just being worthwhile.
I am looking out at my 8:00 AM class now -- working out the problems of their "group presentations" and being beautiful just by working at their assignment. It brings a "kind of peace" to my soul to understand and accept that such beauty actually...exists. Thanks to God, or god, or fate, or time -- thanks for this life!
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