The Most Beautiful Thing

Pondering the question when asked in class “what is the most beautiful thing you can think of” I answered “a sunny day”. In my head beauty is a difficult concept to comprehend, physical beauty is obvious and dependent on its interpreter, however I mean to discuss mental beauty. The beauty of a sunny day lay not in its appearance but rather in the fact that is generates bliss. Bliss is the most beautiful thing in my opinion as it not only encompasses aesthetics, but as an emotion allows for pleasure, joy and leads to good things.

In Jordan’s blog he had commented that “understanding” was the most beautiful thing, “understanding that is necessary for a deep emotional relationship that one partakes in with another human being. The most intimate relationships are between people with a profound level of comfort emotionally and mentally”. While understanding does contribute to refined emotional relationships; bliss ultimately contributes to understanding. How can this be? Look at this picture of a child smiling, how is it confirmed that one truly understands another? Through the emotion of smiling.

Bliss contributes to happiness, happiness refines an individual and when happiness is shared with others they experience peace. With this said perhaps the purpose of humanity is bliss, perhaps our true purpose as opposed to analyzing the problems within our world is spreading happiness. I had a conversation with a friend about how our night out was. She said that here life was a "hot-mess" and I laughed. Despite the fact that she may considered her actions that night as dumb or embarrassing she made others laugh, she contributed to everyone having a good night. Thus she spread bliss to all of our friends as we now possess a hilarious memory when looking back on this event. The quote "the pursuit of happiness" may be what we truly yearn for, and be strengthening our social connections with others and creating positive memorable events we contribute to the spreading on happiness from person to person.