Beauty/Pain

What is beauty? What is Love? What is the good in this world? Is it merely the absence of pain? Because there is no such thing as love without hate, how can a person experience beauty if they’ve never known pain in their life? Beauty is realative. So does that then make beauty the absence of pain? A person that is constantly in a state of sweet bliss knows not that they are, because that they have nothing to judge their experiences against. Is everything beautiful that happened to you, beautiful on its own, or is it only beautiful when measured against the banalities and failures of everyday life? But then take that person that’s in the constant state of beauty, what if they were not always like that; let’s say that they entered upon this utopia roughly halfway through their life. Up until the point where they entered this state, they had experienced pain, so that means while this utopia was new to the person it meant more to them than it did after a year of being in it. Therefore if that logic is sound, then the interpretation of beauty can in cases be extended to say that beauty is the absence of pain while it is still new to a person. If beauty is constant, than it becomes jaded in the human mind, and it desires something even grander. Therefore in life, it is necessary to experience pain if you want your life to be beautiful. Every downfall and every setback, rejection and disappointment is only there to add to the grandeur of the beauty that shall eventually come. But that brings up even more points, if beauty is the absence of pain, then that means that there is a state of no pain at all in which there is 100 percent beauty, but of course that is impossible…Unless you look to the Buddhist beliefs of Nirvana, which I won’t, and don’t care to mention in this note. In all practical senses, it is impossible. This leads to my next point, if for everything good that happened to you, there was something bad that equaled it out that would mean that your life is mad up of 50% beauty 50% pain. I don’t believe that. That would be taking it a little far; it’s bound to be unequal. But the thing is, a person with a higher percentage of pain in their life will savor that beauty all the more, and it will be worth much more to them. Because they have less of it, it is more valuable, and maybe in that case everybody experiences the same amount of beauty in their lives, just in different amounts.