I think beauty and pain are related because they both have the capacity to rend our hearts. We cry tears of sadness, and tears of joy. How strange that two so very opposite things share the capacity to undo us. And so it is that joy is not necessarily absence of pain, nor pain absence of joy. It is interesting that beauty and pain are abstract yet neither emotions nor entities. Not only can they evoke similar responses...often they come hand-in-hand. How is it something can be so beautiful it hurts, and that in some of the most painful things there is beauty to be found? And somehow, to human beings, both beauty and pain are necessary to wholeness. We must not only experience them in real life, but find them within us.
Why do we call them beauty and pain? Why do we call beauty...beauty? The same for pain. I suppose we categorize things by the emotions and responses they evoke within us, by how they feel to us. The things that evoke this certain response we call "beauty." And we also have "bittersweet." What if our categories were flawed? Maybe everything is bittersweet...
It is so late. Not a good time to write a thinking-hard post. I'm not making a whole lot of sense anymore. More on this later perhaps.
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