Life is Beautiful To Those Who Live It Completely

A Stream and a Deer - Peder Mørk Mønsted

There is beauty all around us, in our obvious surroundings, in the small things we take for granted, and in all those minute moments that make us have a shift in our emotional stability. There is beauty and its presence is inevitable. There is beauty in having company, and there is beauty in being alone. There is beauty in falling in love, and obviously there is beauty in having your heart broken. To quote Arundhati Roy from one of her interviews —

“To get your heart broken again and again… But who wants an unbroken heart?You know, I don’t.”
 — Arundhati Roy

There is beauty.

And that gives rise to our question today — How to recognize the beauty of life?

It is indeed true that there is no beauty in wars, tragedies, pandemics, but in the end, even in the harshest of moments in life, we can find the beauty. It might not be a complete beauty of life, but a small spark that gives and will give us the hope to stay alive, to move ahead.

Amid the trauma of war, you might find the beauty of having a caring hand. In the tragic moment of quarantine, you might find the beauty in staying indoors with just yourself or your family. And in every instant, there is a spark present right around the corner which gives us hope.

And it is indeed true that life is truly beautiful to those who live it completely, to those who face their fears and to those who don’t have any fear. To those who know what to fight for and to those who know whom to live for. Even if there’s no one to live for, one will always have themselves, what a bliss it will be to have the chance to live for oneself!

The art of finding beauty in every aspect of life does not just come with a right mindset or a positive perspective, though these qualities do help a lot in one’s ability to find the beauty, what one needs is a keen eye that keeps searching for the beauty hidden in every aspect (Is ‘hidden’ the right word? Let’s call it ‘Camouflaged’). What one needs is the ability to find the camouflaged beauty which is almost always right in front of us, and at times, it takes more than just the capability, it takes ones capacity to fight for finding that beauty in life. And to those who are willing to fight — Life is Beautiful.

“Beauty will save the world.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

~ C. Madan

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