What Is Life – By Robert Almodovar
November 16, 2009 by noreen
Filed under Article Of The Month
“What is Life”
By Robert Almodovar
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What is life: A strange continuous awareness
we have been thrust into without plan or sound advice.
What is space: A medium in which we may move about
or stare into, longingly.
What is time: A massive event into which life spans
and which there is always too much of, or too little.
What is I: This fragile protector of my soul and
collector of questions for which I have no answers.
What is you: The entity that draws out all my uncertainties
and makes them complete, and on which I look and I see me.
What is beauty: That which when I look out into space and see,
is pleasing to me such that it draws me closer,
even in the face of peril.
What is passion: A raging being within me that looks
only to join that which is me with that which is you.
What is love: An harmonious connection of I and you
so complete, that I only makes sense with you.
What is peace: A certain serenity in the knowledge that
love is true and complete, and forever.
What is hell: The absence of you.
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Dave Hanchette on Thu, 8th Apr 2010 8:44 pm
Almodovar’s definition of beauty, “That which when I look out into space and see, is pleasing to me such that it draws me closer, even in the face of peril,” gives pause.
The exceptions to this definition abound: shyness would prevent drawing near, inner beauty would be unseen, extreme danger could activate extreme fear, precluding approach, and the blind would not experience beauty via this definition.
Still, speaking personally, I miss beauty that I have seen before and long to see again. I would approach this beauty despite peril. Truth — I need such beauty in my life.