The Beauty of Life

To determine the beauty of life first we must determine what is beautiful. It has always been said that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, In my opinion, that is one of most truest statements that has ever been quoted from a philosopher. Beauty is a subjective description. The dictionary in my laptop calls beauty "a combination of qualities, such as shape, color, and form the pleases the aesthetic senses" (do not know what dictionary title my laptop uses). All we have to do is look around us and we see different people find different thing beautiful. You have some guys that like a portly women. Some women that only date black guys. (which really confuses me in a way, how can one person only be attracted to a person by the color of their skin. I used to say I would only date Latin women, but it was not only because of the natural tan that most Latin people have, but because of the higher types of interest that Latin men and women have in common. The music , the language, the culture- when two Latin people get together, they already have many anxieties out of the way because of the commonality of their general culture. I would not "not" date a women of another race, but it was just better, least I thought at that time, to date a women of the same ethnicity. I assumed there would be less conflict. Anyway, times have changed and now I married to a Jewish girl, but that is beside the point.

Beauty is what is "aesthetically pleasing." I guess some of what I had said earlier could relate some what. Some times our sense of what is beautiful changes. We grow and we gain knowledge, and maybe we gain a better definition of what id beautiful to each of us. This could be one aspect of why life is beautiful. Change is accepted (in most cases) and the beauty of change is that we, as a people, can change. In a Darwinian sense, change is what made us, the planet, life and organisms in our planet what they are today. Life is constantly changing for us. Every insignificant decision we make, an animal makes, probably causes a significant change in all our futures. I mean, is that not beautiful.