ratik1819

"Worlds had to be in travail, that the meanest flower might blow..." -- Oscar Wilde In order to be beautiful, one must have gone through pain and suffering. In order to stay beautiful, one must continue to face pain and suffering. Oscar Wilde and his theories on aesthetics. I initially wrote them off as superficial and hedonistic. Now, they're just... tantalizing.

-------------------------------- The common physical world can always translates into metaphoric bliss. I see the four legs of a chair lit by two light sources. My two bedroom windows. The two shadows, almost at right angles, stem from each leg of the chair. They seem to chain down the chair. But it doesn't seem like the chair minds. The ground is what he loves best. The concept of "groundedness" floats freely through my mind. Flat on its four legs, without any disturbances, the chair is a pretty well-built chair. But just a moment ago, I had been lying on the floor, tossing the chair around with my feet. When the chair is turned on its si

There are motorcycles in our neighborhood. I've always assumed it was the some annoying-ass middle-aged men with foul vocabularies, wear greasy leather jackets and drink way too much beer. So when I was walking home today, and heard a motorcycle revving up a few blocks away, I was like "Pffft. You think you da shit, zooming around our quiet little town on your chunky asses. Yeah. That's right. Stop disturbin the p-e-a-c-e. " (actually, I was super jealous. but don't tell anyone. ) But then as the bike got closer, I realized the motorcyclist was... an old man. He had simple blue jeans and a dusty polo. His full head of hair was completely w