Beauty is not a materialistic possession that can be clenched. Beauty is an emotion or something analogous to it which we can experience or feel. It is another form of stating that beauty is subjective and not something else.
The world becomes an ugly place when all we see is matter. In reality, if something is hideous or appealing it is all an opinion of the person who is saying it. We witness thousands of sunrises and sunsets every year. But we only perceive a small number of them as elegant, and an even smaller number as exquisite. Whereas some people never do witness any.
A monkey's baby may appear hideous to others but for the mother, her baby will always be her jewel. Beauty from the aspect of a mother is that her child is beautiful. What others would feel about the child will never affect the mother. It is our eyes and our mind that perceives something as aesthetic or unattractive. For someone, beauty can be something that you see. For some beauty, is something that you feel. Beauty has a different perspective for different humans.
In our daily lives, we behold many things around us. And it is always up to our eyes and mind to classify that thing as ugly or beautiful. An ordinary example is perceiving a crying cat or a dog misfortune and a group of birds chirping good luck. Something really strange and common is perceiving the flickering of the right eye as something bad will happen. Whereas flickering of the left eye is considered that something good will happen.
Dust Of Snow
The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree
Has given my heart
A change of mood
And saved some part
Of a day I had rued.
- ROBERT FROST
The poem Dust Of Snow by Robert Frost portrays that superstitions are man-made or created by humans. Obeying or not obeying these notions is totally up to us. This poem also depicts that had the poet also considered the hemlock tree and the crow as a misfortune then he would have not certainly experienced the change of mood. He would have fretted about the fact that two superstitious things had acted upon him.
Therefore it can be said that just as happiness lies within, beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.
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