Tuesday, January 24, 2006

Beauty as a repetitive trait in Life cycle...

Again I'm stimulated in opening a 3rd parallel lane in the track of my recent reflections on Life aspects. It's strange as you cannot talk about one side without dragging the other sides to the discussion.

It always intreagued me when I was young how some perceived a woman as beautiful while others perceive same woman as not beautiful at all...I then realised that Beauty is a very individual perception that depends on a total subjectivity. Many consider Beauty as a big dilemma while in fact Beauty itself always speaks simple language but we sometimes like to apply those mysetrious equations in order to give Beauty certain attractive dimension trying to maintain an appealing concept to avoid slipping in the trap of a boring abyss.

We reflect what we believe in and this translate into what we see...so does Beauty Vs Ugliness works.... As the popular saying :"Beauty lies in the Eye of the Beholder" as it all depend on what the beholder perceive as Beauty or as Ugly...Beauty is a very simple approach that vary from one to another but yet holds more an attitude & a life style than just a visual conceptive image. Its essence consist on how we think of what we see and how what we see affect the way we think...Its a sort of partnership as both ideas depend on each other...I don't like to mistake Beauty with everything that needs to be visualized coz it transform Beauty into rigide images while in fact Beauty can be identified through all human senses without being restricted to only one factor which is Vision.

According to Pythagoras, the Greek mathematician and the founder of a religious cult devoted to the idea of reincarnation back then in the 6th century, Beauty means "Cosmos"...For him Beauty is the central explanatory concept we require for understanding pretty much everything & anything. Beauty is the key to the order of the universe. Pythagoras had great interests in Music and made a very impressive discovery then that might sound very banal to us now but in fact it is very astonishing. He said:" A stetched piece of string, when plucked, produces a note. If you get another piece of string exactly half the length of the first and pluck it as well, the two notes will be in harmony"... Together they define what we now call an Octave. The Universe is not just ordered; it has a beautiful order. When we are delighted by musical harmonies we thrill, Pythagoras believed, to the fundamental order of all things.


...To be continued...

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