what makes something beautiful?
what makes a picture, a piece of art, a scene, a person's face...etc...what makes it good to the eyes and what makes it not?
is it a question of culture and society?
is there a innate default mentality, generalizable for all people to not be considered a cultural thing?
all the questions below the first aren't even questions i'm interested in. i had them written hoping it will help me remember the context of my first question if i forget it soon.


WHAT!



Read the alchemist today.
it's a really great book. good. live life simply. live for the present. it's all been what i've been pondering over recently. but when i hear "live for the present", i am reminded of some TV commercials...a white backdrop, lots of colors like in splashes of paint...red..green...blue...yellow...all vibrant....young people in jeans and colorful splashy t shirts jumping around, all so cool....."live in the present"! Ok, reminded is a wrong word, because i made that commercial image in my head, i think. but that's not what i'm thinking. i mean, live simply. all is meaningless. today is as good a die to die as any other