Keep Walking !!

It was one of those indolent afternoons where you had so many deadlines to meet and yet your inner soul is reluctant to even think of those assignments, leave aside completing them, unperturbed by the consequences – A lazy afternoon was not new for yours truly, However this was a much pleasant afternoon, because of the pitter patter drip drop sound caused by the rain (yes the inspiration is a nursery rhyme!! These rhymes however hard I felt to recollect them as a kid, they tend to help me at the apt moment – was struggling to find out the right adjective). And as I slide the window panes, the scene that beckons me – the hillock covered by the green foliage and the sparkling silver dew on the moist ferns was a toast for my eyes and I said “wow, this is beautiful!!”
When, I saw the movie MATRIX Reloaded about 4 years back, there were only a few dialogues that I could assimilate as we had not seen the first part of MATRIX (It turned up really different, that the MATRIX trilogy became one of favorite movie series, after I saw the first part!!) and yet the ones that we could assimilate are still fresh in my memory and one of the favorites being “You see there is only one constant. One universal. It is the only real truth. Causality, Action, Reaction - Cause and effect. If something is an effect, it requires a cause.” Well, it may turn out to be a professional peril if I forgot the essence of the dialogue.
Anyways, I don’t want to continue with neither the professional peril nor with the MATRIX, but suddenly as I was gazing out of the window and appreciating the beautiful scene, my grey cells in the left side of my brain were working overtime wondering, as to what makes me to call something or somebody beautiful. Is the beauty an effect or a cause? I could very well overhear the grey cells on my right side of the brain instructing my left side to mind their own business and not to get involved in analyzing something which is intuitive and subjective territory – deciding what is beautiful!! (No idea if this is true, but heard that the brain has 2 sides; the right side is intuitive and subjective while the left is analytical and logical). But as they say, an idle mind is devil’s workshop. I was always inquisitive about who is the devil and what does the workshop produce, until I wrote this manuscript - which itself is a product of an idle mind!! (Wow!! – This evolving theory is much more interesting than the topic itself – Need to evolve it further, so that I can patent it before it falls down on some Newton’s head)
Coming back to the beautiful (mind), when we look at the things around us in life, we are instinctively attracted to beautiful things - we love beautiful people, beautiful works of art, beautiful cars, beautiful houses, beautiful nature etc, that’s because we have a natural understanding that something, is beautiful. Now the question arises where does that natural understanding emerge from. Does beauty arise from the fact that something which is symmetric, proportional, and consistent or it has a certain harmony of colors or is it a template that we learn and that evolves during our life and is influenced due to various life experiences or is it just very crude, hazy and very personal!! (As they say, Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder). Long back, I read an article where in they had concluded – beauty (people) was just a function of a certain ratio of some face characteristics and the article talked about taking measurements of 100’s of people before concluding this. (We can safely assume that this must have been a work of a certain Black Belt who was stretching hard to find some conclusive results and once he was sure he cannot get them, resorted to this hypothesis!!) Well the above thesis doesn’t explain the fact that if it is based on a ratio, then why would people find different people beautiful and if there is a different theory that there is a personal template that evolves – Why would there be both commonality and diversity in our choices of deciding which is beautiful? As I ponder over this, I think of another viewpoint – Is beauty really pertaining to some visual insights or is it just something else – how could you explain the fact that some of us use “beautiful heart” (how many of us have seen hearts) and “beauty in words” (are we really appreciating the calligraphy!!) and what about “beautiful idea”? It’s strange, that sometimes when we attempt to make something’s simple, it turns out to be really complicated. There are so many unanswered questions that have emerged when we attempted to demystify the mystery behind beauty. Without taking this further (at least let me enjoy the beautiful rain and also save you from further torture), I would try and summarize what I did really assimilate about beauty today – Beauty is a subconscious drive (chemical reaction?) that overwhelms both logic and reason and yet signals the onset of an emotion – a feeling of admiration. Friends, I had given you enough hints that this blog is a product of an idle mind and if you have managed to read until now, I can surely categorize you to be either confused or an intellectual (I ain’t sure of who I am either and since you are here I would rather treat you as somebody like me!!) and either or, you would have some thoughts about beauty that I expect you to pen down as comments to this blog.
Having bored you so much on the theory of beauty, I would rather you present you with a practical test!! Shown below are some ladies that I believe fit into my “Template of Beauty” or have helped me “Evolve the understanding of what is Beauty” and I have failed to find any common link between each one amongst them and I would be glad if you are able to find that for me? (Well, actually the practical test is just a showoff, I actually got a notification from BlogSpot officials yesterday that there have been no viewers for this blog and therefore they would withdraw it, unless the viewership increases – This is just an attempt to add the glamour element to boost up the viewership!!)

1. Madhu Bala - The Eternal Beauty!!