Carmine was beautiful. she's just a simple compact camera, and not as big or valuable as the DSLRs she had seen in the shops, but the colour on her body; it glows brighter than any of the dull colours of those other cameras.
too bad for her though, because she never knew how beautiful she really was. she'd always been taking shots of the bigger and better cameras; she'd never seen herself look beautiful before.
the big cameras sometimes take photos of her too, but when they show the shots to her, the pictures are either too blurry or too dark. she hated all those other cameras for making her look ugly when she's always making them look beautiful and handsome.
"and they are the DSLRs," she mumbled to herself. "they're the ones who should be able to capture better photos!"
Carmine got devastated and sank further into the belief of her ugliness. there she sat, in the corner of the camera shop, believing with all her heart that she was an ugly camera.
one day, the owner of the shop plopped a camera next to her; one she had never seen before. he was a very ugly bright red, she had thought. one glance at him and she never bothered with him anymore.
he always took photos of her, though. this she ignored all the time because she believed that a boring camera like him wouldn't be able to make her look beautiful if the DSLRs weren't able to.
his name was Crimson, she soon learnt; and even if she did wanted to see the photos he took, he never allowed her to even glance at the shots. until one day when Carmine decided to snap a picture of him.
reluctantly, Crimson allowed a single shot to be taken by her. he didn't laugh; he showed a sad, meek smile as Carmine flashed her lens.
Carmine got a shock of her life. in the picture, the camera she had captured was the most beautiful she had ever seen. "he didn't even have to try! he just looked, and i'd gotten his beauty," she exclaimed. "not like those other big cameras. they all tried too hard to look good!"
one day, Crimson finally got the courage to show Carmine the photos he took of her. once again Carmine got a surprise to see the pictures; everything else was blurred apart from the little camera; her body glowed its carmine, making her stand out in all the pictures.
"these are beautiful!" she announces.
"you are beautiful," Crimson replied softly. he looked around the shop and added, "and nobody else knows so because they are busy thinking of their own beauty. i focused on you greatly; that is why i am able to easily portray your beauty in my lens."
"you're good-looking yourself," Carmine giggled. "all you had to do was look into my lens and i already saw how handsome you are."
and so they lived happily ever after, because along came a boy and a girl who bought them both because of their common liking for the colour red. *ahem*
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man that sure was impromptu.
moral of the story? there will come someone who will think you are so, so, so beautiful just by looking into your eyes, and can easily tell and show you the beauty you don't believe you have.
t'is my beautiful Carmine (;
come back soon! i'll blog again. hohum.
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