May 7, 2011
Beauty 0
A while ago I sat in my car driving to a meeting in a far away town. You know that kind of driving that doesn’t require much action and attention from the driver. Simply following the road mile after mile in a relaxed way. As usual there is no sense of going from A to B or any sense of anyone moving through anything. It is simply a continuum of here that somehow ends up as an arrival at the destination, which is amazing enough. Anyhow, while sitting there a question arose; “If there is no meaning and purpose to life why bother to live at all?” This might sound as a depressing thought but I assure you it was not. It was more a sincere curiosity around why existence bothers to exist at all. Non-existence and nothingness is in a way much easier. The answer that came almost knocked me over; “Beauty!” No hesitation, just this total yes from the heart to beauty. Not a beauty in opposite to ugly, just this simple basic beauty of existence, beauty as a fundamental force of creation, creation as beauty. We live in a society obsessed by beauty as on of the most, maybe the most, desired means to happiness. Stars, idols, magazines, fitness, fashion, movies, the list goes on forever. Ironically enough, what if beauty is the one thing we can’t escape? What if you are forever beautiful as well as everybody else? What if beauty comes with birth and there is no way to hide or avoid it? What if your contribution to the world is beauty and your unique way to express it is the way?
- richard -
