I was talking with one of the guys at work the other day. We were talking about the many sides of a person that makes them who they are. This afternoon while I was window shopping with a friend at Anthropolgie I was thinking about the many aspects of myself. Here was a girl who a few hours a go was wearing a polo serving food making people laugh, tomorrow morning I would be wearing another polo working around a bunch of jocks, a few minutes ago I was jamming out to some Beyonce on the ride home I might listen to Tony Bennett. I meditate to Debussy and I wake up to Melody Gardot. I watch operas and will go to a rodeo. I will plant tomatoes in the ground and get a manicure to go out on the town. As I was thinking about all of this still at Anthropologie I realized people are full and complex but they are not onions, we are diamonds. Look again at the photo above. That is the hope diamond. One of the largest and arguably the most beautiful diamond in the world. Look at the depth, look at the shine. Each cut of the diamond adds to it's intensity and it's beauty. People are often described as onions, because we have layers. But what if we considered those onion layers as facets and what if those facets added to our intensity and our brilliance. We are brilliant and unique people. Each of us shine in a different way and each of us are beautiful sparkling diamonds.
