bodies.
sounds kinda weird/creepy, right? that i love and obsess over the human body.
but seriously, it's gorgeous. on MOST people. i say most because there are healthy bodies and then there are unhealthy bodies, and unhealthy bodies kind of gross me out.
for example, you can be grossly underweight or grossly overweight and i think those are weird.
however, the majority of people fit somewhere in the middle and that's perfect.
i took a ton of anatomy classes in high school, originally wanting to go to school to be a pediatric oncologist, which is short for a little kid cancer doctor. i LOVED learning about the body. bones, muscles, nerves, brains, eyes. the whole shebang! and i love it.
then, my interests changed and i took art classes. in one of my drawing classes, my professor suggested that i attend a life drawing class for some extra help and some extra credit.
of course i went.
life drawing means naked bodies.
sooooo awkward.
until my amazing professor explained that it's not pornography to look at a naked body. under conditions of medicine or art, they serve other purposes.
there is something about bodies that has always fascinated me. the fact that we're all just skeletons covered in muscles, bones, skin, teeth, and nails is amazing.
everything down to skin color, eye color, hair color/texture, stretch marks, scars, and dry elbows. i'm obsessed.
i'm slowly becoming a little less shallow as far as judging on appearances. when it comes right down to it, we all have amazing bodies that do incredible things.
the work that must have been put into it all, making sure we could bend and stretch, to lift and to pull...it all just leaves me in complete awe.
it's truly incredible, and it really just leaves me grateful to a God who created everything about me, down to my squinty, smiling eyes and my bubbly butt, clear down to toes that can pick up almost anything.
considering how much pressure i put on my body every single day, i think it's amazing that i can get by with nothing more than bumps, bruises, scratches, and tendonitis. all things that can heal over time.
it's amazing. and muscles that will remember things, allowing me to get better and better at things i set my mind to.
it's amazing. truly.
the things humans can do...it's beautiful.
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