Aesthetics

It’s the branch of philosophy which deals with the nature of beauty and artistic taste.

It’s essentially a deep appreciation of beauty. But, when applied to your life, it’s more.

To live an aesthetic life is to go about life often focused on beauty. It’s creating it in our surrounding and noticing it in our everyday life. It’s being mindful of it, and really honoring and celebrating it.

It may sound rather hedonistic, and I guess in many ways it is, as objects of beauty involve satisfying the senses – in the direction of pleasure. But, again it’s more. If we could see how much is there for us on an ordinary day, we’d soak in abundance and delight in wonder.

I’m about to begin my 45th year and I’ve decided that it’s time to dive wholeheartedly into living a live that is deeply rooted in aesthetics and pleasure.

To begin a journey of discovery, to open my eyes to beauty and surround myself with it on a daily basis. To turn the ordinary into the extraordinary.