Maheen Syed

I tell her that she's beautiful. She laughs and asks me how when there is a crack on her front tooth, a crease between her brows and eyes not of equal size. Where is all the beauty in her slightly too big nose, in the freckles on her cheeks and how her hair takes years to grow. I wonder from where she has learnt that beauty lies upon your skin. Her beauty doesn't cover everything that she holds within. The word BEAUTY by its very definition is "pleasing to the sense and mind." But she has changed her mindset and the definition of beauty under the influence of people around her. It breaks my heart to know that her mirror is how she estimates her worth and not the lives that she has made much better and brighter simply by just being on this earth.