The most beautiful thing I have ever seen, in my entire life, was a seven day old Ugandan baby . While I was living in Kampala this summer, Teacher Joy, who works at Extreme College gave birth to a breathtakingly beautiful baby girl.
Not all babies are cute, let alone beautiful, it's just a fact of life. It's a sad, and a slightly mean observation, but it's true. Some babies look constipated. Some look like aliens. Don't misinterpret this however, and assume that an ugly baby will grow into an ugly person. That is not the case at all. I myself was not the cutest baby, but I turned out okay!
Now this baby, that I was fortunate enough to rest my eyes on, was neither constipated nor alien-like. She was perfect. What struck me the most, was the color of her skin. In African children, the pigmentation does not set in right away. Instead they are blessed with a caramel golden skin tone for the first weeks of their lives . This little nugget glowed, that's how beautiful she was. Try if you will, to imagine a color like this. It was honestly like nothing I had ever seen before.
So what about all of you? What have you been in the presence of, that you can for sure say, is the most beautiful thing you've ever seen?
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