beauty delights, sincerity fascinates

"The beautiful delights me. But the sincere, ah, it fascinates me."

I’ve grown a thick skin for emotionally-charged Internet propaganda (especially the ones accompanied by cute drawings) that prey on my vulnerable state of mind with false hopes, delusions of grandeur, and improbable, impossible, or vomit-inducing representations of “true” love. But every once in a while, I come across something that is worth sharing — or at least worth stopping and thinking about … collectively.

I got this one from someone on facebook who just added me. And, lo and behold, she’s already posting all kinds of great stuff (I just unfriended her — ended up being a fat old lady who bathed me when I was a baby — ew!). Who doesn’t love that?! My translation in the title is frugal, though. Translating it more fully would read: “The beautiful delights me. But the sincere, ah, it fascinates me.”

Trust me, it sounds much more pleasant on the ears and on the soul in Portuguese.
Tru dat.

 


Author: Filipe

I love language and spirituality. I also love education, technology and design. My favorite topics of conversation revolve around theology, poetry, linguistics, rhetoric, World Englishes, chinchillas, second language writing, how to kill a plant in 10 days, etc. I was a language teacher and now I build language learning products by day. I am an interpretive mind-dancer by night. I live in China.

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