You don't need to go far to find beauty, it is everywhere if you pay some attention and look closely enough. It doesn't have to be special, unusual or uncommon, it can be simplest of everyday things that you may witness time and time again, walk by over and over with no more than a glace at the most. But, just stop and look a little closer, you will see it.
When we stop and look at the details of something a little closer than we are used to, they begin to change in our eyes, they start to become landscapes rather than details, foreign scenery that changes perspectives, makes one think differently about what it was just a moment earlier. If one can learn in that moment, what was observed can change forever in eye and, change action forever forward.
It is no different for those around us, those we may walk by or even talk to often but one day, one time, we have a chance to look a little closer, see the veil lifted, the facade drop away and hear a word or a phrase that changes the elements, shifts the mix of how we experience that person and we will never see them in the same way again.
The change, the view, our newfound understanding may not be positive, it may be harsh, rough and break a spell that was held over us but even in that moment, there is beauty. To see what was missed, to learn more, expand awareness and understanding, to change. There is always beauty in such things as it tells the story of life and our constant evolution through it where we ourselves are never static, never stationary.
As I see the world, beauty is all there is and even the ugly that exists is functional beauty that contrasts with the sublime and enhances the peaks and troughs of experience. When our personal world gets torn apart and our tinted glasses lay smashed upon the hard floor, that is when we are able to see what is truly beautiful.
Just look a little closer. You will see it too.
Taraz
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