{"id":35,"date":"2014-06-12T03:13:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-12T03:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nilayan.me\/index.php\/2014\/06\/12\/the-beauty-and-the-beast\/"},"modified":"2014-06-12T03:13:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-12T03:13:00","slug":"the-beauty-and-the-beast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nilayan.me\/index.php\/2014\/06\/12\/the-beauty-and-the-beast\/","title":{"rendered":"The beauty and the beast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;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&#8217;s difficult to decide which is more important, who dominates over whom, who rises up, who recedes, who doesn&#8217;t give a damn anyways!<\/p>\n<div>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&#8217;s ultimately a side that we have to choose, and when they are at opposite ends of the spectrum, the decision becomes tougher.<\/div>\n<div>The rambling about the mind is because we tend to discard some things which don&#8217;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 &#8220;sixth sense&#8221; 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.<\/div>\n<div>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 &nbsp;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&#8217;t over complicate things. The shortest distance along a crooked road is only a straight line.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;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&#8217;s difficult to decide which is more important, who dominates over whom, who rises up, who recedes, who doesn&#8217;t give a damn anyways! The thing is we always tend to forget [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nilayan.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nilayan.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nilayan.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nilayan.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nilayan.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nilayan.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nilayan.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nilayan.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nilayan.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}