"Eyesight sees what is on the outside," Murray (pastor of First African Methodist Episcopal Church, where Ray Charle's funeral was held) said of [Ray Charles], pianist and composer. "Insight sees what is on the inside."

That's what I want to be able to do.. and I'm striving to do it.. not to become anyone great as he was, but to simply be able to have a simple thing called insight. People nowadays care about the outside, or say they do care about a person's heart, but you can always tell people fall for looks, fall for what they can see... and I guess its expected of people, because its the easiest thing to do. What's harder is to have the ability to see a person not through the outside but the inside... its become so cliche that "Don't judge a book by its cover" seems silly to hear. But if it were actually possible to compare people with books (and I know I shouldn't), and if we were to get rid of all the "covers" of every book, I wonder if we'd see the person next to us in the same light as we do now?

Written on Saturday, June 19 at 4:46 PM