Beauty is a paradox. It is as primal as it is constructed, as instant as it is unfolding. We sense it unconsciously, yet it’s endlessly dressed up, filtered, and paraded by a culture addicted to façades. In a world so saturated with illusion, the question of what is “real” beauty — and what is simply performance — becomes more than personal preference. It becomes a question of truth itself.
Tag: discernment
A meditation on shock, belief, and the endless search for truth. The reflection moves through the traps of ritualized events and the exhaustion of external authority, toward the quiet recognition that all answers ultimately return inward. It is an invitation to see illusion for what it is, without fear or denial, and to live from what endures beneath it.
We like to think we have time — that tomorrow or next year we’ll finally sit down and give life to the things that matter most. But time has never been ours to control. This piece is a reminder, to myself as much as anyone, of what’s lost when we wait, and what’s possible when we stop waiting.