“Radiant within”- Just give a try!

“If they ask you how rich you are, tell them to look inside your heart”.

  - Matshona Dhiliwayo 

Why doesn't our world appreciate inner wealth? Aren’t we all moving toward a greater focus on outward appearance? We spend a great deal on grooming maintaining fitness, following diets, visiting beauty parlours yet hesitate to recognize the treasures within ourselves like empathy, sympathy, and talents.

Every child is born with a unique gift. As kids, we explored those gifts through school competitions, but as adults, we grow reluctant to do so. When will we begin to value honesty, passion, kindness, and creativity?

We remember beautiful faces who are known for their appearance and fitness enthusiasts. We remember dieticians, by this time you could list atleast 10 of each category, Ask yourself: can you list ten people known for kindness, honesty, amiability, or empathy? Probably not. That’s the harsh reality.

This reflection makes me ponder physical appearance, physique, and diet are temporary like passing clouds or a fleeting travel companion until their destination. But inner qualities like creativity, resilience, and compassion, honesty, kindness are birthmarks that never fade. They are permanent; they have no expiry date. Imagine remaining kind, honest, empathetic, and passionate well into your seventies or eighties isn’t it serene? This is true wealth.

My inspiration came during a bus journey, when I saw an elderly woman sincerely praising a young girl freshly returned from a beauty parlour. Many criticize beauty parlours as superficial, but the older woman offered genuine praise and warmth not for the girl's makeover, but for her confident spirit. It became a living allegory: 'Youth honoring age, and age celebrating the inner wealth of the young’.

So, I decided to commit to a 21-day journey to groom inner wealth revealing latent talents, demonstrating resilience, showing kindness, empathy, and integrity, singing, dancing, or expressing creativity in any form. Give it a try, and I’m sure you’ll feel the difference.

I am a great lover of both inner and outer beauty, and probably many of us are like that. Let's just take a step towards inner wealth as well.

I have begun my own 21-day journey to nurture my inner wealth. Now, it’s your turn!!⭐⭐

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