I thought the discussion in class about beauty went very well. I hadn't thought about what beauty could mean until the question was asked. It isn't exactly an easy answer, but it can be answered. I think a more difficult question would be what is not beauty? Like discussed in class, a rotting animal carcass would most likely be considered something that is not beauty. But if someone were to look at the corpse and think about what will become of it that idea would be considered beauty. The animal was once living and will eventually decompose and its remains will become apart of a cycle that makes our earth exist. In its place something more appealing to the eye may then grow. That is beauty. Beauty can be an idea or thought of what may become of something.
I also believe beauty is internal. Each person sees things differently. More than one person may consider the same thing to be beautiful, but each has their own reason why. When one person looks at a sunset they may be reminded of a moment spent with someone special. While someone else may think about how there is so much more in this world to explore.
Beauty is everywhere and in everything. But it takes a mind to see it or understand it as beauty.
