The Mona Lisa is Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece. But it wasn’t always considered so. It intrigued me when I first learned it was stolen in 1911 from The Louvre. It was missing in action for two years before it was recovered. By then, it had become the most famous painting in the world.
Before the theft, the verdict wasn’t that clear that it was a masterpiece. It was the hype that caused more and more people to declare it so. It only took 400 years for the painting to really hit its stride.
You may not realize it, but you are a masterpiece too. You may be a little rough around the edges and have had some bumps and tears. But it’s the imperfections that make a masterpiece shine. You may not have been told how great you really are until now. But that doesn’t change that you were a masterpiece all along. It just took someone speaking truth and life into you.
So let’s go over it one more time: You are a masterpiece! If you haven’t treated yourself as one until now, it’s high time you did.
- Handle yourself with care
- Give yourself grace
- Slow down enough to breath and get some self-care
- Treat others around you as masterpieces, because they are too
- Masterpieces look different.
- They’re different colors,
- shapes
- sizes
- styles (cultures)
- media (beliefs)
It’s time we treat ourselves and those around us as the masterpieces we all are.
