Life Lesson #12: Everything looks charming in the sunset.
Everything looks charming in the sunset. Even old buildings and torn down places in a bad part of town look charming in the sunset. It creates an effect rather like a movie. It makes people and nature look beautiful. Evrything becomes charming.
In some ways this is like our lives and the people in them. We all put on a mask. Even without realizing it. We make ourselves charming when around others. We become perfect, they become perfect, and without realizing it, we form expectations that everyone is to be perfect. At least when they are around others and us. And then we get that perfect charming image in our head of what that person is like. Problem is, people aren't always perfect. And if you're around them long enough, and you pry into them hard enough, you'll uncover their dirt. The things they hide. Their not-so-charming aspects. Just like the old crumbling building in the not-so-great part of town usually looks foreboding and scary.
The sunset, and our masks, have a very chraming effect. But that's not who we really are. And we can't expect everyone to stay like that always. We wouldn't want ourselves held to that would we?
