Beauty

[Kanzler]

beauty is the stuff you do not have the words for
stuff that makes you speechless​

I don't think so. Massive human suffering makes me speechless, but that's not going to be beautiful. I think beauty has the potential to make you speechless, but the sheer awe of something does not make it beautiful.

I'm going to contradict myself now since I'm googling stuff and I'm coming across the aesthetic of 'wabi-sabi'. According to Wikipedia: "[t]he aesthetic is sometimes described as one of beauty that is 'imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete.'"

And that lead me to this thingy:

Spoiler:

So... maybe beauty is just really complicated and not easy to understand.

I think there is an appeal to purity and wholesomeness in wabi-sabi. Kitsukoroi could be interpreted as the recreation of integrity of an object giving it new life. Objects can be "pure" without being perfect, in fact, perhaps its sheer existence in a state of imperfection is infinitely more pure than any attempt to perfect it. On a superficial level it seems to subvert the ideal of purity, but I think you could definitely tie it back.

Beauty can come from both perfection and imperfection. Gods and angels are seen as perfect beings, and are beautiful as a result, which is why people revere them so much. However, I am reminded of a quote from the film "Troy" staring Brad Pit. In it, Achilles says



An interesting concept to be sure, and it brings up an interesting point. If you are walking down the street arm in arm with someone who you think is beautiful, and you glance across the street at someone equally as beautiful, chances are you will be more interested in that stranger than the person you are walking with. Why? Because that stranger is out of reach. Things that are out of reach or forbidden tend to be more attractive, but then if we obtain them, after a while they seem less beautiful.

Perhaps it is the emotional struggle or tension that makes it beautiful? What do you think?

 

[Pebbles]

I don't think so. Massive human suffering makes me speechless, but that's not going to be beautiful. I think beauty has the potential to make you speechless, but the sheer awe of something does not make it beautiful.

i get your point....{:3}
i changed the sentence
i could of been more specific​

 

[Midnight shadow]

Perhaps it is the emotional struggle or tension that makes it beautiful? What do you think?

I'm not sure. Envy and Jealousy play a part in this, no matter how much we try and hide it. Humans by nature are greedy beings who want to have as much as possible, possibly as part of our survival instinct (the more you have the more likely you are to survive). This is pure speculation on my part however, and I don't claim to have a firm grasp on the psychology behind why we obsess about things beyond our reach, or at least view them as more than what they are.