What’s your favorite place you’ve traveled?

Someone recently asked me, “What’s your favorite place you’ve traveled?
I said, “I’ve come to a point where I realize that if I close my eyes, spin the globe, and stick my finger on some random place, that would be the most beautiful place in the world.”
She looked perplexed.
She didn’t want this philosophical answer.
This philosophical lesson.
It was a simple question and she wanted a simple answer.
It’s interesting. Simple answers seem beyond me sometimes.

I could have said anything.
Rome came to mind.
Then I remembered Lauterbrunnen.
But, then there is the superb sweetness of home…
Then I thought,
Would any of these answers do justice to what I’ve come to realize?

Beauty is what you decide it’s going to be.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder,
Right?

It’s what you choose to see that will dictate what it is that you see.
It’s that simple.

Which brings up an old adage,
Wherever you are, there you are.
So,
If you seek to see beauty in everything,
It doesn’t matter where you are.
You’ll be surrounded by beauty.
It’s finding the beauty in everything you do.
It’s recognizing that beauty comes from within.
Beauty is not an externalized experience.
Beauty is not a place or an event.
Beauty is a state of mind.
Beauty is a state of being.