Monday, October 31, 2005

What according to me is beautiful in this world?

What's beautiful in this world? Generally, people would say things such as friendships, love, flowers, their childhood lives, panoramas, nature, etc.. I'll bet that no one would suggest unhappy things such as tsunamis. Not wrong, but here i'd like to express my own opinions and thoughts. Honestly, if anyone were to pose to me this question, say two years ago, i'd most probably give the same answer as most people. But lastly i've been thinking and searching for the answer, and somehow my perceptions towards all things have changed since then, on which i'll illustrate below. First of all, let's start with an analogy. Perhaps many of you have been too a painting museum where famous and "beautiful" paintings of all times were displayed. Browsing through all the paintings, we notice that not all the paintings express happy times. Some may depict a sad and gloomy situation, perhaps a village ruined by a hurricane, or victims of disasters. Why is that so? Why do they classify them as "beautiful"? This has given me the idea. Perhaps, most of us think in a different point of view. While most people think as they were those people in the paintings who experience those disasters, I tend to think the other way, as the person who sees the painting as a whole. For me, i'd say that all things are indeed beautiful, including the disasters, and everything. In fact, life is beautiful. Perhaps some of you would say "nonsense! you're not the one who experience those mishaps" But really, i'd now tend to see things as if i were another person viewing the painting, even if i'm suffering from any miseries right now. Well..if i were asked what makes that beautiful, i'd have no answer. For me, it's simply life itself which is beautiful. The constant flow of time..we can imagine our lives to be a film which is being played, and we're simply following the flow. Some of us would be having a tragedy, a comedy, but all were just a drama of life. Some of us were in the "climax", some in the "anticlimax" of it. And how beautiful it is to observe and enjoy the "films". Unexpected things might happen, but it will only happen once, the film can't be rewinded. And the fact that there's a definite time in which we live in this world makes it even more beautiful. To quote what achilles said in "the troy" : he mentioned that even the gods are envious of us, mortals. Yeah, that makes some sense to me. More than what i've told u above, I also think that, it's not actually "life" that's beautiful. It's not the painting that's beautiful, but a beautiful painting talks more about the painter. Similarly, it's not our life that's beautiful. I'm not saying that it's not, but my point is, that the Designer of our llives are beautiful! God is beautiful! Now, if anyone of us would say that something is beautiful, say a particular song is beautiful, or anything, picture yourself as a character in a painting, saying that some object in the painting is beautiful. Here it becomes clear. You're actually praising not the object in the painting, but the painter. It's the heart of the painter that creates everything. His emotions are the starting point of everything, and we're here to enjoy everything, and just following the flow....

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