Life should be shared - but not always or with everyone
In the age of 'everyday sharing', it's wise to be a little reluctant.
The more observant I became of the externals of our world, the more I saw beauty everywhere. It's fascinating. I also saw ugliness. One cannot be defined without the other. Joy is not as easy to find as beauty, so you better find joy in beauty. Then you will be happy all the time. I am not there yet.
When I found all this beauty, I wanted to share it. I wanted to tell it to anyone who would listen. I tried to capture it in pictures and show it off. The joy too, my joy, I wanted to share. But also the darkness that is there inside me. Soon I became almost transparent. I wanted to share my life as openly and honestly as possible.
I know that this has helped some people feel better, and I'm glad. I'm grateful that my mistakes or my joy could have a positive impact on someone else's life. And I intend to continue doing so. Being there for your fellow human beings is a duty. But there is another duty too, which should not be neglected. Khalil Gibran put it this way:
“Travel and tell no one, live a true love story and tell no one, live happily and tell no one, people ruin beautiful things.”
These were words that hit hard.
We destroy the beautiful. It is true.
I still see the beauty everywhere ...
Beauty So much beauty Everywhere Too much beauty Overwhelmed A pair of blue eyes A wisp of hair in the wind Fingers with grace Feet on summer meadow The lines of the car A house in town The song on the radio A couple hand in hand From the earth I tread To the stars above So much beauty Beauty everywhere
But I no longer want to share everything with everyone. For one thing, I realize that the beauty I experience on a walk through the forest can never be captured in a photo. Only a fraction of it. Nor can I capture the moment in poetry or prose.
Moments cannot be captured. That's a lesson to be learned.
Of course we will try. The most beautiful images and poems do just that. Capture a fraction. And such beauty enriches when we share it with each other. But the moment I try to share, I also destroy the intimate beauty.
For art, this is acceptable. At times.
But it is important to be able to experience and live without telling. Without sharing. Many people feel that they have to share. You don't have to. That's what Zuckerberg and Musk want us to do. Let's be defiant.
I want to share the beauty I encounter with a flesh and blood woman walking next to me. I want to say "dear wait, come, look here" and show the ice crystals formed on the stone. I want her and I to share this moment, this intimate beauty - hands clasped tightly - and then it's gone. A memory, barely. No one but us will ever know about it.
I want to laugh with a friend; cry alone in helplessness; make wildly passionate love and pet a cat sitting on my lap. And no one except those directly involved knows anything about it. I will find the balance, it is there somewhere.
It's time to value the private. Not to casually destroy the beauty of our world but to make sure that what we share is actually for the benefit of the recipients and not just an expression of the modern world's ego-centric worldview. It's time to keep things close.
What is your problem Magnus? I dont agree at all with you and not with a Libanes person you talk about. Let me tell you something I am 5 years older then you and its time to set things right once and for all. I see and observe you very intelligent but unfortunately very negative and that will only harm you no one else. The other important thing is that you should stop worry about what you can not control, people are free to share what they want and you should not be feeling jelous and accept every one is different. But I am definitely against sharing hate, toxic and bad talking behind people and in this case behind Swedish people, its coward and not right, what you put out there will come back to you, karma put hate comes hate , put love comes love. Dear Magnus you should think what you are sharing to, for exempel hate against Swedish people on X by you and DFS, so first please clean in front of your own door. And lastly people are free to share what they want and I hope to see more beauty and beautiful, I love it and please stop gaslighting my dear no body is ego Centric and please join live give love and let live, stop wasting your life on toxic and negative stuff, dont be jelous, be happy for them , I get happy to see peples pictures, everything, they all are human beings and I love them like my own flesh and blod, women men all whatever they are right left whatever, give love, love is the only way and every one is free, freedom.
Love and light to you
Thank you for this time but here is my boundarie and I will leave you here wish you all the best and good luck, remember be good and the only thing matters is love, nothing else matters, not money , materials or politics.
Thank you very much .
Elizabeth Svensson