You know what, artists never cease to amaze me. In a way. Geniuses too.
It's how some painters are able to transform a blank canvas into a beautiful picture.. into something, heavenly. Or how some genius with a picturesque memory is capable of drawing a whole city with only one glance.. every single window, every single column of the building.. every street..
Ever wondered what would it be like to see the world through their eyes? Do they see the world any more beautiful than we can see them?
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I recall watching Beautiful Mind and imagined how scary it would be to be schizophrenic. And also how scary to have someone close to you who's schizophrenic, because you know you can never see what they see. You don't know how to help them. It takes the strength like John Nash's wife to go through what she had to, for her husband.
But of course, that's not the point. The crucial point here is that.. the mind is so powerful that everything in our lives revolves around what exists in there.
If one has visual impairment where he sees red colour instead of normal blue colour and vice versa, and thus has always assumed red to be blue in general standards, who's to tell him that he has been mistaking them wrongly?
Because, no one else can see through the windows of your eyes.
Truth is, no one can or should know how your mind works and tell you it's not right or wrong. No matter how much similarities two can have, two minds can never work alike. Each person is a different world..
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They say our mind have filters; In the sense that it filters out what we ought not to see. And it is affected by all but too many factors, like environment, principles, ethics.
Compare an idealist and a realist.
The garden of Eden exists for idealist, while a realist finds it ultimately impossible.
You know it when they say "Life is just how you see it."
You see people going through same shits but not everyone end up being the same.
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I guess, the walk of Life is probably like the process of painting.
We paint how we want it to be, though it's not always that it'll turn out how we want it to. Though, some would paint better than the other. Yet to paint a beautiful larger picture, it'll require more than that - preserverence and determination. Using the right methods.
But at the end of it, does it matter what everyone thinks about your painting?
Or does it matter more what you think about it, is it beautiful?
I'd say, to anything that has been given great effort to do, even if it turned out to be no more than an ordinary painting, the pride in achieving this far will make it seem beautiful. And only that matters.
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This will serve as a reminder that nothing will continue to be the same when effort is constant. At the end of everything.. you'll come to realise what matters most.