Beauty in the Mundane

(which is really just here to flesh out the journal directory)

2023/02/26

I think that it's important to look for and be able to recognise beauty in whatever one can, as it may often be found in unexpected, everyday things otherwise overlooked.

A few months ago, I decided to ask my classmates to share with me some of the things that they find beautiful, and I (or sometimes they) wrote them all down on two different pieces of paper. Scans of these pages may be found below, although my writing is not notorious for being the most legible, so here is a typed list of some answers, also:

• the impassioned way that people tend to sound whenever they read poetry aloud;
• thick, healthy hair, so long that you could sit on it;
• marginalia, even though a lot of people complain about it, because I enjoy reading the thoughts of the people who have read books before me;
• parents greeting their children after school;
• the sound of the violin;
• fine craftsmanship, natural symmetry and attention to detail;
• absolution and the divine;
• complementation and duality;
• the sharing of thoughts and feelings;
• earnestness in the attitudes of children;
• fog over the mountains;
• youth, purity and innocence.