hot vs. HOT
I am redefining, for myself at minimum, what it means to be hot. I no longer care about trying to be hot for others as in worrying about whether or not people find me physically appealing or attractive. Instead, I now choose to focus on being HOT – Honest, Open, and Transparent. Think about it for a moment if you are willing to do so – do you appreciate when people are being authentic and true with you, or would you rather them be fake and false? It’s a true or false pop quiz! ;) If you are like me, then you prefer the former.
Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
-Khalil Gibran
Superficial and superfluous stuff feels so wrong to me. I do not intend to offend anyone here (with this particular paragraph within this post). I am simply expressing my opinion. When I saw RFK, Jr.’s (third) wife standing next to him after the VP announcement, I was horrified by how she appeared. Everything about her face screamed fake and inauthentic to me. I wonder how many surgeries she has had. Plastic surgeries. I could debate that whole topic of “plastic” in and of itself for far too long, so I will definitely put a pin in that for a future post. The person closest to me in my life pointed out what I consider to be a profound perspective that I had not previously pondered – did Cheryl Hines choose these procedural paths for herself, or did she feel pressured by the patriarchy positing power over her? Our choices should be individual. I have already said that who knows how many times within these first two cycles of posts alone. I believe it firmly, so maybe that is why I keep stressing it repeatedly. HOT truth can take time to sink in gradually. After all, we can look a gift horse in the face and say “Nay”, eh? Our choices should be our own.
If you see something beautiful in someone, speak it!
-Ruthie Lindsey
To part this post, here are some sugjestions to consider: are you being HOT1 with others? Are you being HOT with yourself? Maybe it is wise. Maybe it is dumb. Time will tell. :) <3
- HOT – Honest, Open, Transparent ↩︎