Writing Prompt
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WRITING OBSTACLE
Describe the most beautiful person you know in one sentence.
Your sentence can have multiple clauses, but must still make grammatical sense. Consider that beauty is not just physical.
Writings
His eyes were full of thoughts, as vast as the baby blue sky in his eyes. Knowledge. Questions. Hopes. Pains. Dreams. More questions. Mistakes. Love for God. Faith. I had never been so intrigued. I was afraid of approaching him so I settled on grasping to uncover the mysteries of his character through others—siblings, mutual friends, proximity. I learned good things. I learned bad things. But that didn’t scare me; I was willing to embrace it all. What I was afraid of was his curiosity in the complexity in my own thoughts—my good and my bad. I just think of all the conversations and banter and debates we could’ve shared if I had been brave enough to reciprocate his approach. He was a specimen I would’ve loved to pick it apart, uncover the beauty that lay within. I’ve liked guys before, but they never struck me as something beautiful. I genuinely admired the soul in his being.
The way her shoulders sloped, you can almost see the weight of her nearly six decades of life, each turn of the clock having brought her fresh tragedy—the sudden loss of her father, the grenade-inflected dissolution of her country, the trudge of an immigrant life in America—but when she laughs, her chin rises to the sky, taking with it her unwavering spirit, her unbroken joy.