I turned on the PC and clicked the Mozilla Firefox. Google.com appeared on the screen. I typed the letters that composes the word BEAUTIFUL. Different pictures uploaded by net surfers was on the screen. Thoroughly, I screened the photographs if they are really beautiful basing from my standards. Not so satisfied, I then enter the word LIFE. (Life is my answer to the question what is beautiful in the first meeting of the class.) I saw many pics, some fit my taste,others don’t.
Life is beautiful. Curios I am, I also looked for pics with the title Life is Beautiful. I tried to figure out if there are other people that agrees with my definition of beauty.
Here is a photograph from the net. I chose the picture because it is considered beautiful by the uploader and I agree with him/her. The picture is also entitled Life is Beautiful.
For me, the picturesque scene is awesome and beautiful. It was taken by a living being. It is a captured moment of the mother and child under the heat of the sun beside the wide sea.
Life is beautiful because it lets us see and experience the two sides of a thing: beauty and ugliness. Recognize the colors of the picture. The color present are neutral colors: black and white. Black and white represents the two faces of life: darkness and light.
The life that I am referring to is the life of the human beings. Having life we are able to see, hear, feel, touch and smell all the things that surround us. We experience every emotions because of life. Thus, we can identify beauty because of life and there are no more beautiful other than life.
That is a very general meaning of life and beauty. However, men have different understanding and definition of beauty. It is embedded by the culture and traditions of the human beings. There is no universal rule in terms of beauty. Therefore, beauty is relative.
Just an overview with the concept of Plato. A photograph is imitation of reality. I do not agree with such idea. It is a copy or a replica of a certain event, thing, or place but it is still original. Originality comes with the medium used and the purpose of the output.
{January 18, 2007}
‘Life is Beautiful’