What’s beautiful? Pleasing to the eye? Perfect structure? Stats that matter? Color, texture, aroma that is almost perfect? With all 5 senses in action, it’s difficult to decide which is more important, who dominates over whom, who rises up, who recedes, who doesn’t give a damn anyways!
The thing is we always tend to forget that there is another sense in action, the godfather of all senses-the mind. People tend to often differentiate it with the heart-the heart supposedly is emotional while the mind is practical. However, I believe the heart is just an essential organ which does what it does best-pump blood. The mind is abstract, although it can be said to reside in the brain. Practicality and emotion are two sides of the same coin, but it’s ultimately a side that we have to choose, and when they are at opposite ends of the spectrum, the decision becomes tougher.
The rambling about the mind is because we tend to discard some things which don’t appeal to our initial senses. But to truly appreciate it, we need to take the godfathers permission. There is also a special advisor known as the elusive “sixth sense” that sometimes comes into the picture. Nutrition is not from mere taste but the assimilation. Assimilation is long and complicated. So is true quantification of beauty.
With my long and apparently meaningless tirade, what I want to present is that judging someone or something as beautiful is a long and complicated process. And life is too short to be making all these long decisions all the time. There is a famous method in maths and computer science-proof by contradiction. Consider everything beautiful unless you are given reasons to believe otherwise. Don’t over complicate things. The shortest distance along a crooked road is only a straight line.