A few weeks ago, a studied about Gestalt psychologists which basically believe that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Around the same time, I smashed a small juice glass. Due to my inability to mutli-task, I didn't see where my left hand took the glass while I read the juice carton as to why exactly I had apple juice in my "litchi swirl".
The glass hit the hard granite kitchen platform with such a great impact, that it shattered into a million pieces before I knew what i just did. I hate it when glass breaks. Until a few years ago, i'd shed more tears for broken glass than for bleeding people.
However, when i saw the "mess" the broken glass had made, there wasn't even a bit of negativity in me. That was because the glass had shattered into millions of little shards. Little crystals, almost. They lay all across the kitchen floor like glitter dust. Shards of shattered sheesha . It was breathtakingly beautiful because of the mundane and ordinary origins of that beauty.
This made me re-think about the Gestalt saying. There, obviously, was much more utilty in the whole glass than its pieces. But you could, technically, reuse those bits of glass and make something else. However, it was the aesthetic value of the shards which appealed to me. No doubt the shards were dangerous. But so beautiful! And compared to that plain-Jane juice glass, the metamorphosis didn't seem like the worst thing. My mother wouldn't even believe that it was the juice glass which caused this. She was sure i'd broken one of her much fancier crystal bowls or something.
Anyway, after a couple of insomniac nights of thinking about it, I concluded that the whole is better, only if you can see all of it at the same time.
Like life. If we argue that what we do in our whole lives, in general, is more important than the little bits, we need to realize that we cannot see our whole lives in front of us at any time! Maybe once we're done with it and look back at it like a flashback.
But, while we look at life from all our various angles and sit and analyze it, we must remember that every little moment is much more beautiful individually than the "precis" that we could write about life, in general.
thus, enjoy every moment. It may or may not make it to the "big picture", but by itself it could show you some amazing beauty.
:)
The glass hit the hard granite kitchen platform with such a great impact, that it shattered into a million pieces before I knew what i just did. I hate it when glass breaks. Until a few years ago, i'd shed more tears for broken glass than for bleeding people.
However, when i saw the "mess" the broken glass had made, there wasn't even a bit of negativity in me. That was because the glass had shattered into millions of little shards. Little crystals, almost. They lay all across the kitchen floor like glitter dust. Shards of shattered sheesha . It was breathtakingly beautiful because of the mundane and ordinary origins of that beauty.
This made me re-think about the Gestalt saying. There, obviously, was much more utilty in the whole glass than its pieces. But you could, technically, reuse those bits of glass and make something else. However, it was the aesthetic value of the shards which appealed to me. No doubt the shards were dangerous. But so beautiful! And compared to that plain-Jane juice glass, the metamorphosis didn't seem like the worst thing. My mother wouldn't even believe that it was the juice glass which caused this. She was sure i'd broken one of her much fancier crystal bowls or something.
Anyway, after a couple of insomniac nights of thinking about it, I concluded that the whole is better, only if you can see all of it at the same time.
Like life. If we argue that what we do in our whole lives, in general, is more important than the little bits, we need to realize that we cannot see our whole lives in front of us at any time! Maybe once we're done with it and look back at it like a flashback.
But, while we look at life from all our various angles and sit and analyze it, we must remember that every little moment is much more beautiful individually than the "precis" that we could write about life, in general.
thus, enjoy every moment. It may or may not make it to the "big picture", but by itself it could show you some amazing beauty.
:)
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