MsCezanne's Odyssey

What would the world look like if…

…everyone looked exactly how they wanted to look?

Would we have a zillion clones? A few different body styles?

Would people look different just to look different?

Would there be fat people?

Would there be short people?

Would everyone be happier? Or would everyone become lost?

If everyone looked like someone else, no one would have an identity, how often can you identify someone from a distance? What about when you run into someone you haven’t seen in a while, you immediately catalogue the changes (your hair! Have you lost weight? Nice tan!)

I know I wouldn’t be happy in a world like that.

Conversely, would the world be great if everyone were satisfied with their current appearance? Would we stop with makeup? Keep the same hair styles all the time? No one going to the gym, or obsessively going to the gym?

I don’t know.

I love the world we live in. Yes, there are multitudes of pain being inflicted as I write this, as you read this. Some pain is worse that other pain. I’d love the world without pain. But would it be interesting?

Pain is but one aspect of life. Would the rest of life be better or worse without pain? Without pain there’d be no fear. Without fear, there’d be no relief, no jubilation (what is jubilation, if not the celebrate the end of fear?).

Without jubilation, there is no celebration. With no celebration, there is no art! Art embodies, imitates life. The less there is to life, the less there is to art. Indeed, without pain, there is no art.

With uniformity, there is no art.

In other words… I should be happy.

Am I happy?

Good question.