Jan 06 2009
beau⋅ti⋅ful 80% or 20%
beau⋅ti⋅ful ˈbyu
təfəl/ [byoo-tuh-fuhl]
–adjective
| 1. | having beauty; having qualities that give great pleasure or satisfaction to see, hear, think about, etc.; delighting the senses or mind: a beautiful dress; a beautiful speech. |
| 2. | excellent of its kind: a beautiful putt on the seventh hole; The chef served us a beautiful roast of beef. |
| 3. | wonderful; very pleasing or satisfying. |
–noun
| 4. | the concept of beauty (usually prec. by the). |
| 5. | (used with a plural verb) beautiful things or people collectively (usually prec. by the): the good and the beautiful. |
| 6. | the ideal of beauty (usually prec. by the): to strive to attain the beautiful. |
–interjection
| 7. | wonderful; fantastic: You got two front-row seats? Beautiful! |
| 8. | extraordinary; incredible: used ironically: Your car broke down in the middle of the freeway? Beautiful! |
I needed to write this. I need to bring the wonders of the world to anyone who cares to see it. I have learned from my numerous years of blogging that there is a lot of negativity in cyberspace. We have to be careful not to be “scammed”, we delete spam email, we have to take measures to prevent identity theft, we discuss our problems, complain, try to avoid viruses, and just so much more…
Yet I find that in many cases, people will leave inspiring comments to even the most devistating of posts. “Hang in there!” “Look here for help on that issue…” and it made me realize that there are places we might never see, people we may never know, situations which beauty can be found in even death if you look hard enough.
While discussing the topic of today’s blog with my Hubby, I told him this. He asked me the following question:
“If I put the most unique, never seen before flower, newly discovered with brilliantly amazing colors on a table, how long would you look at it?”
I had to think for a minute. I can’t honestly put a time frame on how long…I know I would study it, look at it, smell it, investigate and appreciate it, maybe three to five minutes for a number. Throughout the day I would look at it again, talk about it, touch it. So then he asked:
“If there was a car accident, how long would you stay and look at it?”
That was easy, I would probably if I could, stay for the whole thing.
“What do you think the percentage is of people who would do the same?”
I would think about 80 %. However, I tried to agrue the fact that a beautiful, rare never seen before flower is not the same as watching an accident. The flower would sit there, it wouldn’t move until it began to wilt if it did wilt; an accident is well, a Verb in a sense. Its an action and there is action taking place. The positive, the beauty of the accident is the way people and emergency workers will come together to help, the people who walk away without a scratch, that’s the positive. Hubby feels people would be more intrigued by the accident because it is negative, its a tragedy and people are drawn to negative.
This entire conversation stemmed from watching the History Channel and the special on Nostradamus 2012. There are many, many scenarios regarding the predictions he left us, (and how they are interpreted), could December 21, 2102 be the beginging of the end of the world as we know it? The philosophers, scientists and other experts who gave commentary on the documentary refered all the way back to the begining of time, when Satan was exiled from Heaven by GOD. When this happened, Satan’s rebellion continued and he vowed to spoil man. How does he do this? with temptation.
I know this much, the struggle to be good is just that, a struggle and it doesn’t go away ever. I need beautiful. I hope you all do too.
I am not sure what the actual percentage is, but I would like to know what the rest of you think.
