Beauty

I'm typing this one while lying on the floor, but I'm not like this

I'm full fledged Super Manning this thing, arms straight out in front of me, head in a pillow, not even looking at the computer. So I apologize for any mistakes that will happen, because they will. Hopefully the red squiggly will help me catch all of the mistakes.

The whole thing with this was because on Friday I got to sub or an English class that was writing a five paragraph essay about what beauty is. One of the classes that was actually being good, asked good questions and we got into a bit of a discussion about it, and so I started to think about what paper I would write for that topic, because let's be honest, that topic of beauty and what it means and how to identify it is something that authors have been trying to understand and get out of their heads for a long, long, long time.

To me beauty is solitute, in those most silent, peaceful moments where a person can be alone with their own thoughts and just be themselves with absolutely no chance of the world around them seeing any of it, that is beauty. To me, those lost moments sitting at a red light, those late nights when the world is asleep, and those rare moments when you can just be by yourself in your own home or wherever you might find yourself are beaufiful.

Beauty is found in that minute you spend at the stop light becuase it is in that minute that you have nothing else to do but just to be there and see the world. Everything is stopped, you have nothing to do but to admire the world around you. Most people take this time to be annoyed with the world around them, be annoyed with the clock that is constantly ticking forwar, but it is in that moment that oyu can spend your time valuing the beauty that is in your life. If ou want to get artsy you can try to find the art and beauty in the car bumper infront of you, or you can just realize everything that is beatiful that you have to enjoy. THe ability that you have what you have, the beauty of the world around you, the beauty of your home, the simplistic beautyof your own body, or whatever else. During that moment, you have the time to find beauty, and that moment, that possibility, is beautiful to me because of what it can bring to you. That moment has the ability to enlighten you, or it has the possibility to infurate you beause the car infront of you didn't jump off the line as soon as the light changed. To m, that dichotamoy, that mix of the calm serenity and the mornign comute anger is beautiful.

Night time is always beautiful to me, being alone and the opprtunity to do whatever you want is divine. But there is one moment in particular that I think is beautiful for a lot of the same reasons that the red light is beautiful. That moment is when you've been in bed for a while, and you're on that brink between being asleep and being awake. It's when the world has started to mute itself, but you know its still there, but the dream is also starting to drift into your mind. It is in that mmet that I find beauty because anything could happen. You are on the mark between two complete worlds. You are almost aake, so everything that you do while being awake is still a possibility because you haven't fully committed to being asleep quite yet, but at the same tie you're just enough asleep that the world of your subconcious is right there ready to welcome you in with islands of icecream, romances with historicl figures, or whatever else you dream about. In that moment you have everything, both in the concious world and subconcious world, ready for you, and instead of being anxious about the posibilities, or scared by what potential things might happen to you, each and every one of us (unless you have insomnia or chornic night terrors) look at that moment with peace. Every night we all go into a moment, not knowing what will happen, having everything avaliable to us, and we drift off into those possiblities in peace.

Those times that are recorded by no other person than you are some ofthe most beautiful things that I have ever encountered. In those moments, when no one is watching, when friends are gone, facebook is turned off, the camers of the world are pointed in the opposite direction are when beautiy pours into the world. It is in those moments that you can do whatever you want, be yourself, make the world exactly how you want it, without a single judgement from anyone around you. It is in those moments that you can sing outloud and start dancing as if your life was a usical, and it is beautiful. It is in those moments that you feel like you can move moutains, that you feel as though you could jump really hard and end up among the cloucds. n those moments where tere are no limitations other than your own mind and your own self conciousness, beauty is at hand because you demand the respect of everything around you. When you are all alone you can take whatever is around you, and you are the master ofthat world There isn't a single thing telling you how it must be, you get controll over everything, you assign meaning to everything, you create meaning for everything, and beauty is created.

Beauty is more than just something physical. Things can be physically beautiful, but there are too many interpretations of that. There's always going to be that one weirdo that finds maggots eating rotten meat beautiful, and the tastes of everyone change so drastically depending on social upbringing and life experiences, but it is the moments where beauty can be understood and you can morph the world around you to be beautiful that I see as the best, most beautiful things. It is in those moments of opportunity and creation where there is beauty.

BAM!

5 paragraph essay!

I hate those things. They are worthless, and they teach such bad writing habits, but they're easy to grade because they're so structured. Just because I did play with some of the structure in mine and not all of the paragraphs are as short (or long) as they need to be, I'd most likely get a B+, A- on this depending on who did the grading because of that. Content would hopefully be A+, but the ability to follow the structure would drop me down in the grade.