Sensationalism
The relentless and gluttonous feeding of our addiction to beauty is destructive. We endeavour to engorge our senses with everything that we behold as beautiful while simultaneously usher the invalid into oblivion. Anything lacking instant gratification we regard as a waste of precious time and avoid. Our imaginations become more vivid in an attempt to sooth the irrefutable cravings for the sensational that in turn shifts our hold on our own realities to dissipate like vapour from the lake of clarity.
Our quest for beauty is not sought out by us personally- instead we have created industries to find it for us and on our behalf. We seem to be forgetting that the real beauty of any endeavour is the balanced amalgamation of pain, effort, endurance, satisfaction, grace and tranquillity. An important part of the journey is the blood, sweat and tears required to complete it and truly appreciate the reward, which can be a spiritual experience instead of a material substance (a most limiting incentive). True beauty comes from within, the soul is tempered by the path - not the decision - it chose to take, and any external beauty reaped from the journey is only a symbol of the inner parallel.
October 31st, 2005 at 10:40 pm
When we seek anything it is usually because we find a lack for it in our own lives, but the lack I’ve realized is not the illusioned absence of it but our own rejection of what already exists inside ourselves. The industries we incorporate to find it for us are a means to make us believe that we do not possess it. When we do. All that we need already exists within ourselves, it is the journey that makes us realize this and continue to discover more. The only reason we shove away anything that lacks instant gratification is because we have been indoctrinated to believe that things like these are still to be found and the fear of the discovering our true selves and what we are makes us drive ourselves away from it. All that we need already exists within us, it is up to us to find it. It is said that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I believe it is because you have seen all small part of that beauty inside yourself that makes it appealing and also makes you appreciate it more. It is what you regard as beautiful that could make it destructive. Beauty in itself could not be destructive, it is too peaceful and exilirating to destroy anything. The misconception of beauty is destructive and the lengths people are willing to go to for it is endless.
November 2nd, 2005 at 6:58 am
If one where to observe a blue object (or any object with a notable colour), although one perceives the object to be blue, is it really blue in reality? Colours are simply wavelengths of light when we think about it objectively and the perception that it is blue is simply the mind translating the different wavelengths into colour that in turn influences our perception of reality. The truth that remains to be true, whether one believes in it or not, is that the object is not blue and we don’t really know what “colour” is.
Similarly, when you say beauty is in the eye of the beholder, I agree- beauty lies within (where it lies is another question) and we are responsible for what we perceive as beautiful or repulsive since in objective reality the entity that is being perceived is neither.