Radiance

There are some people who have nothing going for them but physical beauty. People who always look good in photos, who may or may not wear makeup. People like models. But then there are people who, when you see them in person it brings your heart to your throat or a smile to your face, people you would do nearly anything to make them smile, and yet when you see them in a picture that feeling makes no sense.

I believe this is what radiance is. I never understood the phrase "She lights up a room" until now I think. I have been told many a time by strangers that my smile has made there day, that I have the most beautiful smile. And I have never understood why... dont get me wrong, I find myself to be pretty but I am over weight and my teeth are not rediculously white, nor are they straight, and It takes a lot of work for me to look good in a picture, either my teeth look funny, I am looking down so it looks like I have a double-chin, my eyes are red, or my face is really red... sometimes all four. And yet I have been stopped on the street by stangers who just wanted to tell me how pretty my smile was and how seeing it made there day. ( nearly exact wording.)

I think I have met someone like this now. Someone who lights up a room just by being there and who I want to see smile everyday. Someone who to most may not be that attractive ( though I find him to be handsome) and yet when I see a photo of them, it is incomplete and does not give me the same feeling....