I was watching "Shall we Dance" the movie (starring J-Lo and Richard Gear) and really loved it the way dancing is so wonderful and beautiful. I really think I want to do ballroom sometime; I have been hoping to do it with someone I love. However, I am not sure if the someone I love would like dancing.
He mentioned about how competition removes the beautiful of dancing from it, I began to wonder if it does remove it. It still looked amazing to me, the moves and the people and their clothes. Besides, who decide what is beauty anyways? Isnt that just another set of rules to say if this is the right way to do something or wrong way to do something??? At this point, this was where I wondered further...DOESNT THE WORLD HAVE SPACE FOR "UGLY" THINGS ANYMORE? Why shouldn't uglyiness and beauty be treated equally? What is wrong with uglyiness, is it evil? I laugh at it as I remember a poem by William Blake as follows:
TIGER, tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand dare seize the fire?
And what shoulder and what art
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand and what dread feet?
What the hammer? what the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? What dread grasp
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?
When the stars threw down their spears,
And water'd heaven with their tears,
Did He smile His work to see?
Did He who made the lamb make thee?
Tiger, tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?
Note, to not give uglyiness space in the world because it is not beautiful; to me, it is the same as to asking God "how can you make the tiger while you make some gentle animal like the lambs" in Blake's Poem. Does God ever answer this question, the answer is NO! (well that is at least I haven't heard the answer). But I "see" God's point in not answering Blake's question, because God preaches unconditional love...no matter how good or evil and no matter how beautiful or ugly. Let's have a look at 1 Corinthians 13:4-8, as follows:
4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.
So, beauty??? Who's beauty??? What do this "who" think beauty is? I have always oh so struggle with morality, who's idea of rights and wrongs is it? I somehow believes there is never right and wrong but inappropriate things to have been done at the time. There is no absolute or certainity, that's what I want to tell you all (and yes I know, most people who has a religion will want to kill me on this one cos' their religions have rights and wrongs/good and evils!! I feel kind of sad for myself, feel real hollow inside cos' I dont think the world has space for me and my ideas either. I guess I am far too frightening and dangerous.
In the end, I can only pull out my ironic smile again and agrees...donomite does indeed comes in small packages.
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This weekend, I suddenly came to realise the answer to William Blake's question of "why does God make a tiger, who also had make the sheep?" And the answer is this:
God is love. God loves the tiger as much as God love the sheep. It is not the question of why God made the tiger who is so different from the sheep. This is probably why Jesus welcomed sinners and "for those who truly repent shall be forgiven".
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