the shiver of beauty

it is very difficult to say if something is beautiful because it is morally good or morally bad. when something is morally good and all the people agree it is morally good, then everyone says it is more beautiful than ever.

yesterday in my house, i saw a relative of mine helping the volunteer group for missionaires collecting food and other stuff to give to the poor people of the country. then another of my relatives told her that she was doing a beautiful action, that nobody does that every day and she should be proud of working for helping people.

then she answered that she was doing nothing but her duty as a human being which is to serve others and help them get what they dont have that she does have. i thought that was an excellent answer to my other relative, which was an adult but anyways, she was reflecting the quotes and thoughts of some of the thinkers of this chapter of the shiver of beauty.

then i started thinking, okay if she says the act is not beautiful because it was her duty to do so, then a big big question came into my mind can we do our duties in a beautiful way? and can we produce beauty? i don't know the exact answer of that and i think nobody does, but what we can do is try to, try to make the best of the best of what we can and see if it worked or not, if it was beautiful or not but never forgetting that it is just a duty and if it is also beautiful then we have a plus.