Have you ever heard that saying “that’s as pretty as a picture”? I live in a place with an abundance of mountains. Today I went for a drive and could see the mountains the whole time. They were amazing, big, and colorful. I found myself thinking “Wow that looks like a painting.” That got me to thinking: how come when people see something real and beautiful it’s common to say it looks like a picture and when we see an equally breathtaking painting it’s easy to think that it looks so real. Are we just running out of clever similes?

Real things look as good as pictures and pictures are soo good they look real. It gets my mind confused. Is the real object the amazing creation or is the picture or painting of it the miracle? Why is it so hard to look at something beautiful, strange or unique and simply say “Hey, I’m glad that’s real. I’m glad I got to see it.” Personally I think my little mind can’t understand how something in this crazy world can look so great so I tell myself it’s as pretty as something that is not real. I think instead of dwelling on things and a reality that can get very scary, we need to remind ourselves that there are amazing things in this screwed up world.

It’s just a thought I had…who knows where thoughts come from; they just appear.