Day 17 - The Beauty and the Beast!

Jog - done.

No WWTT today. Just one thought.

I saw a Brahminy Kite (aka the Red-backed Sea-eagle) from the window of my office. When it flew down its golden colored wide wings were a sight to watch. I just loved watching it. Instantly what occurred was that it's a beast to its prey and unlike other smaller birds even humans are scared to go near it. Isn't always beauty and beast together? Isn't that it's us who label something as beautiful and something as beastly, depending what side of the same object we are looking at?

If I can extend the same logic, isn't this applicable to people in our life? Isn't it possible to admire someone who we have always hated or never liked, just by shifting our view of them - shifting from looking at the beastly side to the beauty side? If so, who's responsible for the emotions and feelings the sight or the thought of the other person evoke? It's I and not them, isn't it? That's standing in a place of "I am 100% responsible for whatever happens to me".

Good thought and logical argument, but how feasbile it is to be 100% responsible all the time? More importantly we need to ask if we are ready to give up being right about the other person being wrong!