This picture is not beautiful. At least, not to me. You see flowers and a beautiful lake, reflecting the green trees and tall, majestic mountains in the background. But I see evil. I see how something should have animals and signs of life surrounding it, inhabiting the supposed beautiful scene pained before you. I see how the once glorious picture could have been pretty before, but if you look harder, there is no beauty. There is death in the animals where they no longer walk. Perhaps it was hunting season and everything had been killed or driven from their homes out of fear. Or is the pond poisoned, slowly destroying every that tries to sedate its thirst and drinks the tainted water.
Over time the cold will take over and the green will become brown and fragile. The snowcapped mountains will be black and hideous, ominous in their presence. The beautifully blue lake will dry up or become polluted and disgusting; then what. What do you have left when everything is gone?
Were you to highlight this image, you would see what I can see. Everything is just wrong. Or do we just refuse to see the bad in something that must be beautiful. Why do we make it beautiful in our eyes? What makes it so lovely and perfect?
The serenity could easily be mistaken for solemnity. Not just the word itself but the condition of the scene. The quiet could be eerie — not a single sound daring to be heard, risking too much if it did.
This could be a murder scene, a body, that had been brutally and violently murdered, secretly hidden in the bushes. The victim could have had three kids and a loving spouse, but their life was taken out of rage, jealousy, or for no apparent reason.
This could be a murder scene, a body, that had been brutally and violently murdered, secretly hidden in the bushes. The victim could have had three kids and a loving spouse, but their life was taken out of rage, jealousy, or for no apparent reason.
But how would you know. All you see is a beautiful lake surrounded by trees.
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Wow this is really good I love how you see past what's in front of you and think outside the box... You're able to see into the picture and find the reality in it. I love that you're able to think in a way more complex than others
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