Can't see

I've always thought that everything beautiful to be seen, they were meant to be seen by the eye. After all, that's what they're made for, eyes. Made for seeing. I mean, there's so much beautiful stuff to see with the eyes. Beautiful views, beautiful buildings, beautiful sunrises and sunsets, beautiful landscapes, beautiful....girls =]. But if you think about it, isn't that so judgmental? In the world today we place so much emphasis on physical appearance. I do it all the time, not gonna lie. I pick which books I'm gonna read based on how cool I think the cover looks, I order food at places that I've never been before based on which picture looks the best. I used to even pick my classes based on which words looked the coolest. Wayy back in the day. This is, what we see with our eyes is just a fraction of what we really see.

I know it might sound weird. But think about it, how much do really know about something or someone just by looking at their physical appearance? Granted, we see tons and tons of things with our eyes, but what does it really all mean? Not much. What we truly see with is our hearts. Think about it. You look at someone, you see them with your eyes, but when you look at them, you have feelings about them as you do. Friendship, excitement, annoyance, hate, etc. That's not coming from your eyes. That's straight up from the heart man. Problem is, people do so much seeing with their eyes these days and not enough their hearts. They meet someone for the first time and see they look a little strange, right away they slap them with a label, whatever it may be. And once you've got an impression of someone like that stuck in your mind, it's hard to change it, even after you get to know them a little.

In my mind it's pretty safe to say that it's not what's on the outside that's important. It's extremely cliche`d, so maybe I can rephrase it in a way that will help more people understand, because obviously not enough don't. What is most important is invisible--that is, invisible to our eyes. It's like an iceberg. What you see of iceberg is merely a fraction of what the iceberg is. The bulk of the iceberg lays hidden under the surface, unseen by human eyes. Same thing applies for people. You only see a teeny bit of who they are, the part that's on the surface. There's so much more that lies beneath the surface, gotta make the effort to go discover it.

Another thing I've been thinking, I feel like I've been going about my friendships and basically all activities in general like they were business affairs..I don't know how to explain it but I feel super formal about everything and procedure-like. And not even on purpose! I had to kick myself and remind myself that friendships aren't about the stats. As in, I don't want to be friends with people just for the numbers of friends I'll have. I want to be friends with them because I want to be friends with them. If that makes sense. Yafeel? I've also learned, the amount of friends I have, how good my grades are, how good I am at this or that does not equate to happiness. That is not to say I haven't been extremely happy over the past half year. It's been a great semester =]. I feel so blessed to be in the situation that I'm in. But sometimes I feel like I make it a huge deal my friends and accomplishments, and it bugs me because I know that that isn't what's the most important thing to me, and yet I can't get it out of my head. Yeah.. that's all for now. Peace man =]