Guys… this shouldn’t happen to you!

As his eyes sweep the crammed auditorium, they trip over a sight which keeps them transfixed. His mouth opens involuntarily obviously awestruck.

The auditorium is full to the brim, almost bursting at its seams. She scans the hall. It’s hopeless. No empty seats. She must find one before the movie trailers start rolling when the lights go out. Then she spots one. One near a guy in sea blue top staring at her intently.

Busted! He turns towards the big screen praying she approaches him. Adrenalin sets his pulse racing filling his heart with a new found feeling. His eyes are focused onto the screen staring at him as he braces himself.

A sweet voice floats to his ear. One his ears never heard of.

‘Excuse me, has this seat been taken?’

‘No… Lucky you. This movie has made a lot of hype. No wonder the hall’s full.’

‘Yeah!…’ [conversation continues]

They were cut for each other he concludes. He feels different. He makes out her face in his mind’s eye as he gazes at the ceiling. ‘Damn!’ He slaps his forehead. He punches the pillow. He feels like crucifying himself.

He forgot to take her number!

Words Are Beautiful!

“Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God’s handwriting-a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson.

I love art! To me, beauty defines art- art is beauty. Art gives a totally different meaning to life-beauty. Beauty is a timeless experience of pleasure and satisfaction. According to Oscar Wilde, “Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm.” Do you realize that feeling that, like the thief at night, sneaks in without you noticing? You teleport into a trance where you are draped in awe. You are stunned and wonder how the elements come together to form such a marvel. That is appreciation. You’ve fallen in love. You try to gorge yourself with every part of it.

For me, art is not only manifested in sculpture, painting, architecture (my future), photography (my rekindled love), music, drama, and the new media (video, film and digital art). It expresses itself in language vis-à-vis writing. The beauty from the way words are stringed to paint a picture fascinates me. The landscape painter uses his brush strokes to convey meaning to the landscape he is reproducing or producing. However the writer uses his dexterity at the use and play of words to paint quite a fascinating picture of that same landscape perhaps relaying much more vivid detail than the painter by describing the blade of grass and the way it sways in reverence to the comforting breeze. In a nutshell, words are beautiful.

Now that’s my style of writing (wait till you read my next post! *excited!!!*). I just love to play with words (pun intended, lol). The beauty words can convey is… fulfilling…gratifying…indulging…ecstatic… passionate…overwhelming…unfathomable…bottomless…beautiful!