“The Beauty” by Marnie Pili “When I was a young girl, I grew up with an earthly childhood. In my eyes, the grass was greener. The sun was brighter. My surroundings were greater. Everything was bigger. The beauty was surreal. A careless childhood that was filled with arts and crafts that encouraged you to go beyond your creativity. To dream big and to never let yourself be discouraged. Growing older, my inspiration slowly drifted away and I became needier to the things of this world. To have ‘this’, and to have ‘that’, and to ‘want’ every ‘thing’ that came into…