I stumbled upon these photos today. They made me think once again about beauty and war. Actually about how thin is the border between them.

These are signs of beauty and acceptance in Mursi tribe, Ethiopia.

Photo by Eric Lafforgue

This is what a woman has to endure in order to get to this kind of beauty. I call it declaring war to yourself.

Photo by Eric Lafforque

I don’t know how many of those who stopped by, asked themselves about the meaning of this blog’s title, but at least one person and I needed to read/write a post that would explain it.

First of all I have to say I like diversity, I like new, I like change and I like exploring, and experiencing. That is, I am going to write on different themes. So, trying to find a suitable title that would somehow define what you can read here, I have chosen “Beauty over war”.

And this is how I define this metaphor:

Beauty = strength, beauty, creativity, art, generosity, responsibility, color, will, courage, forgiveness, understanding, openness, integrity, unity, joy, support, love, freedom, dreams, faith…

War = splitting, ugliness, weakness, envy, fight, theft, discrimination, evil, revenge, humiliation, limits, frustration, fear, misery, selfishness, hate, slavery, mistrust, disorientation, hesitation…

Photo by .nevara

All positive and negative that happens inside or outside is because of us creating beauty or war. It’s us who always choose. My manifesto is to choose consciously beauty over war!