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Beauty, as ugliness, is only a matter of perspective, focus and point of view. Anything can be beautiful, everything can be ugly. You find something beautiful o
by 8jef 4y ago
Beauty, as ugliness, is only a matter of perspective, focus and point of view. Anything can be beautiful, everything can be ugly. You find something beautiful or ugly? Try to shift your focus to include its surrounding to various degrees, or do the opposite, zoom into it. You see? Most of us are deeply moved at how Earth is beautiful from space. Then, when you drill from the general to the particular, you might find places on the planet that are more or less attractive. Try this long enough, differently focusing on all things you see and hear and feel, from images to ideas, always moving around the subject, often changing angles, and you might start to see things for what they really are: simultaneously complex and simple, ugly and beautiful, all at the same time.
The big lure was always to embrace one particular point of view as your own. THIS looks crazy stupid. THAT sounds amazingly beautiful. EVERYTHING seems so ugly. And so on... Then, one day you wake up and think the opposite. Beauty becomes ugly, and vice versa. It happens all the time, to everyone. Life can have this effect on the living.
- mensetmanusman 4y agoIt’s not only a matter of perspective, there seem to be interesting cross cultural universals to what is deemed beautiful. Almost no one thinks smeared feces on a door handle is beautiful.