The Beauty of decay
Hi all, i know its been a couple weeks since I last posted. But have found it hard to put into words what I have been feeling and how my outlook is changing. I think I might have mentioned a few times here that I find decaying things beautify, particularly buildings and factories. There are so many great photos out there. For a while now I have been wondering why I was so fascinated. I have come to the following conclusions. Firstly a decayed building is no longer fit for what it was intended. Its broken. Yet through this decay it remains in tact but in a different way. In most cases some work would bring them back to working condition. The beauty lays not in what was, but in what is. A place with no future just slow and painful destruction by mother nature. This I identify with because my temple my mind is in a state of decay. No longer what it was, unable to work the way it was intended. Yet I still have it. ...