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We often talk about. But let's think about it: can we just see? See the world at this moment in its entirety. Without dividing it into good and bad, into black and white, without trying to find any words, concepts, conclusions for it...

What is it - the ability to see beauty?

First of all, this is - ability to peer. Peer with fresh eyes, as if we are seeing this world for the first time. The way children peer (this was discussed in the article “”). After all, we run through life without noticing anything around us. We don’t see our home, we don’t see nature, we don’t see our loved ones and just our work colleagues. We already have some kind of idea, a template in our heads. We are speaking: « I already know that" . I already know my husband, why look into him every day? I already know my subordinate. I already know my apartment. And all the way to the place of work.

What do we lose by acquiring such ideas?

Life flows, and the world around us changes every second. The ability to see beauty is not just the confidence that the world is beautiful. This is the ability to notice the slightest changes. The ability to sense your husband's mood. Understand that today he is not at all the same as yesterday. The ability to see in your colleague not only an employee, but also a person, a woman who lives her own unique life, grows and develops. And also the ability to notice changes in the atmosphere in the house, the faces of passers-by, trees on the street, birdsong...

You say, what does the ability to see beauty have to do with it? After all, the main thing is to concentrate on the good, give thanks, etc. ("") Why should I notice my husband's mood if he came home from work angry and offended? Why should I peer into the cityscape if all around me is garbage and dust? Why not learn to see only the good, turning a blind eye to all the negativity that we encounter in life?

However, to be able to see beauty you need at least just learn to see. Otherwise, we live not in the real world, but in our ideas about the world. We close ourselves off from life, afraid to notice something terrible. We talk about how beautifully birds sing without listening to their singing. We talk beautifully about the greatness of nature, trying once again not to notice it.

In the first years of theater institutes, actors are taught to see and hear on stage. When a student goes on the court, he is so busy with himself and his role that he does not perceive his partner. He doesn’t see his partner’s live reactions, he starts from his own idea of ​​the game... If we think that according to the play our partner should be happy, we don’t see his real reaction. We a priori consider him satisfied. This makes it impossible to interact lively on stage. It's the same in life. We are not always distinguished by attentiveness, ability to observe... And if we don’t see anything, then our discussions about beauty are just stereotyped words.

In the next article I will talk about exercises that help us learn to see beauty. Therefore, do not forget to subscribe to blog updates!

What role does nature play in human life?

Text: Anna Chainikova
Photo: news.sputnik.ru

Writing a good essay is not easy, but correctly selected arguments and literary examples will help you get the maximum score. This time we are looking at the topic: “Man and Nature.”

Sample problem statements

The problem of determining the role of nature in human life. (What role does nature play in human life?)
The problem of the impact of nature on humans. (What impact does nature have on humans?)
The problem is the ability to notice beauty in the ordinary. (What gives a person the ability to notice beauty in the simple and ordinary?)
The problem of the influence of nature on the spiritual world of man. (How does nature influence the spiritual world of man?)
The problem of the negative impact of human activity on nature. (What is the negative impact of human activity on nature?)
The problem of a person’s cruel/kind attitude towards living beings. (Is it acceptable to torture and kill living beings? Are people capable of treating nature compassionately?)
The problem of human responsibility for the preservation of nature and life on Earth. (Is man responsible for preserving nature and life on Earth?)

Not everyone can see the beauty of nature and its poetry. There are quite a lot of people who perceive it utilitarianly, like Evgeny Bazarov, the hero of the novel “Fathers and Sons.” According to the young nihilist, “nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man is a worker in it.” By calling nature “trifles,” he is not only unable to admire its beauties, but in principle denies this possibility. I would not agree with this position, who in the poem “Not what you think, nature...”, in fact, gave an answer to all supporters of Bazarov’s point of view:

Not what you think, nature:
Not a cast, not a soulless face -
She has a soul, she has freedom,
It has love, it has language...

According to the poet, people who remain deaf to the beauty of nature have existed and will exist, but their inability to feel is worthy only of regret, because they “live in this world as if in darkness.” The inability to feel is not their fault, but a misfortune:

It's not their fault: understand, if possible,
Organa life of the deaf and dumb!
Soul him, ah! won't alarm
And the voice of the mother herself!..

It is to this category of people that Sonya, the heroine of the epic novel, belongs. L. N. Tolstoy"War and Peace". Being a rather prosaic girl, she is not able to understand the beauty of the moonlit night, the poetry in the air that Natasha Rostova feels. The girl’s enthusiastic words do not reach Sonya’s heart, she only wants Natasha to quickly close the window and go to bed. But she cannot sleep, her feelings overwhelm her: “No, look what a moon it is!.. Oh, how lovely! Come here. Darling, my dear, come here. Well, do you see? So I would squat down, like this, grab myself under the knees - tighter, as tight as possible, you have to strain - and fly. Like this!
- Come on, you'll fall.
There was a struggle and Sonya’s dissatisfied voice:
- It's two o'clock.
- Oh, you're just ruining everything for me. Well, go, go."

Lively and open to the whole world, Natasha's pictures of nature inspire dreams that are incomprehensible to the down-to-earth and insensitive Sonya. Prince Andrei, who became an involuntary witness to a conversation between girls at night in Otradnoye, is forced by nature to look at his life with different eyes, pushing him to reassess his values. First, he experiences this on the field of Austerlitz, when he lies bleeding and looks into the unusually “high, fair and kind sky.” Then all the previous ideals seem petty to him, and the dying hero sees the meaning of life in family happiness, and not in fame and universal love. Then nature becomes a catalyst for the process of revaluation of values ​​for Bolkonsky, who is experiencing an internal crisis, and gives impetus to returning to the world. The tender foliage that appears in the spring on the old gnarled branches of the oak tree with which he associates himself gives him the hope of renewal and instills strength: “No, life is not over at thirty-one,” Prince Andrei suddenly decided finally and without change.<…>... it is necessary that my life should not go on for me alone.”

Happy is the one who feels and hears nature, is able to draw strength from it, and find support in difficult situations. Yaroslavna, the heroine of “The Tale of Igor’s Campaign,” is endowed with such a gift, turning three times to the forces of nature: with a reproach for her husband’s defeat - to the sun and wind, for help - to the Dnieper. Yaroslavna’s cry forces the forces of nature to help Igor escape from captivity and becomes a symbolic reason for the completion of the events described in “The Lay...”.

The story “Hare's Paws” is dedicated to the connection between man and nature, to a caring and compassionate attitude towards it. Vanya Malyavin brings to the veterinarian a hare with a torn ear and burnt paws, which brought his grandfather out of a terrible forest fire. The hare “cries,” “moans” and “sighs,” just like a person, but the veterinarian remains indifferent and instead of helping, gives the boy cynical advice to “fry him with onions.” The grandfather and grandson are trying their best to help the hare, they even take him to the city, where, as they say, the children's doctor Korsh lives, who will not refuse them help. Dr. Korsh, despite the fact that “all his life he treated people, not hares,” unlike a veterinarian, shows spiritual sensitivity and nobility and helps to treat an unusual patient. “What a child, what a hare - all the same”“, says the grandfather, and one cannot but agree with him, because animals, just like humans, can experience fear or suffer from pain. Grandfather Larion is grateful to the hare for saving him, but he feels guilty because he once almost shot a hare with a torn ear while hunting, which then brought him out of a forest fire.

However, is a person always responsive to nature and treats it with care, and understands the value of the life of any creature: a bird, an animal? in the story “The Horse with a Pink Mane” shows a cruel and thoughtless attitude towards nature, when children, for fun, hit a bird and a sculpin fish with a stone “torn to pieces... on the shore for looking ugly”. Although the guys later tried to give the swallow water to drink, but “She was bleeding into the river, could not swallow water and died, dropping her head.” Having buried the bird in the pebbles on the shore, the children soon forgot about it, busying themselves with other games, and they were not at all ashamed. Often a person does not think about the damage he causes to nature, how destructive the thoughtless destruction of all living things is.

In the story E. Nosova“Doll”, the narrator, who has not been to his native places for a long time, is horrified by how the once rich in fish river has changed beyond recognition, how it has become shallow and overgrown with mud: “The channel narrowed, became grassy, ​​the clean sands at the bends were covered with cocklebur and tough butterbur, many unfamiliar shoals and spits appeared. There are no more deep rapids, where previously cast, bronzed ides drilled the river surface at dawn.<…>Now all this ulcerous expanse is bristling with clumps and peaks of arrowleaf, and everywhere, where there are still no grasses, there is a black bottom mud, grown rich from the excess of fertilizers carried by rains from the fields.”. What happened in Lipina Pit can be called a real environmental disaster, but what are its causes? The author sees them in the changed attitude of man to the world around him as a whole, not only to nature. A careless, unmerciful, indifferent attitude of people towards the world around them and towards each other can have irreversible consequences. The old ferryman Akimych explains to the narrator the changes that have taken place: “Many have become accustomed to bad things and do not see how they themselves are doing bad things.” Indifference, according to the author, is one of the most terrible vices that destroys not only the soul of a person himself, but also the world around him.

Works
"The Tale of Igor's Campaign"
I. S. Turgenev “Fathers and Sons”
N. A. Nekrasov “Grandfather Mazai and the Hares”
L. N. Tolstoy “War and Peace”
F. I. Tyutchev “Not what you think, nature...”
"Good attitude towards horses"
A. I. Kuprin “White Poodle”
L. Andreev “Bite”
M. M. Prishvin “The Forest Master”
K. G. Paustovsky “Golden Rose”, “Hare’s Paws”, “Badger Nose”, “Dense Bear”, “Frog”, “Warm Bread”
V. P. Astafiev “Tsar Fish”, “Vasyutkino Lake”
B. L. Vasiliev “Don’t shoot white swans”
Ch. Aitmatov “The Scaffold”
V. P. Astafiev “Horse with a pink mane”
V. G. Rasputin “Farewell to Matera”, “Live and Remember”, “Fire”
G. N. Troepolsky “White Bim Black Ear”
E. I. Nosov “Doll”, “Thirty grains”
"Love of Life", "White Fang"
E. Hemingway “The Old Man and the Sea”

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The opportunity to see the beautiful and amazing around them is given only to children. Growing up, people gradually lose this gift. Many of us have divided the world into good and bad, useful and harmful.
Things, events, phenomena that mean nothing to some, or even irritate them, for others can become a real inspiration, a subject of admiration.

The ability to see beauty in the alien

The talent for noticing little things helps you make new discoveries. The most attentive people are considered to be people in creative professions - artists, photographers, writers, performers, sculptors. For them, the world is open in a varied palette of colors and has more facets of beauty. People of art tend to find positive things more often than others in the most ordinary or even not very pleasant for others.
One such example is the attitude of actor Tom Cruise towards his daughter Suri. He, like a loving father, decided to capture in gold what other parents throw away with a wrinkled nose (can you guess what?). And for him it became a real work of art. I didn’t want to insert this picture. 🙂
This is, of course, an unusual case, and it is not the only one of its kind.
As you can see, different things can be beautiful. The main thing is to have the ability to see.

Be able to see the beauty in the gray and boring

The ability to see something more than what is close to a person’s gaze is not given to everyone. Alas, many, as they say, do not see beyond the tip of their nose.

“Here it is, a gray and terrible aluminum fence, cross-shaped... no imagination!” - grumbles a fellow traveler on the bus.

Indeed, gray color evokes boredom. What should the barriers be like for the hundred-kilometer roads of a huge city? Build chased or cast iron fences, like during Tsarist Russia? Would these fences be a real decoration? After all, behind their beauty, no one would have seen the dandelions blooming in the clearing. And also, along the entire length of the road, on such a nondescript and gray fence, there are real city beauties - petunias.

Why do some see gray, while others see its shades and what lies beyond it?

See and understand the beauty in simple things

This is the most wonderful way to cheer yourself up. There is no need to expect that someone will take care of you, entertain you, and console you in moments of grief. We can handle it ourselves if we want.

How to do this if everything around you is wrong? We won’t list the reasons why you might be upset. There really are too many of them, but that’s not what we’re talking about today.

One of the options for raising your mood is. But your loved one can’t guess this? Or does his path home not pass by a flower stall?

Create your own mood! There is absolutely no point in going out and buying a bouquet for yourself. This can become a reason for jealousy. Although, weeds (that’s how my bouquet was dubbed) can also become a reason for jealousy.

Go outside to the nearest park, where you haven’t had time to mow the lawn yet, and pick yourself some flowers. Simple blades of grass, daisies, blooming clover, thistles. Everything you come across. Why not a bouquet?

To live well for those who are just steps away from wildlife. But a city dweller needs to go somewhere. How much effort does it take to pick forget-me-nots and bells for the girl you love? Such a bouquet, perhaps, in terms of spiritual value will be more expensive than a purchased one.

And how many positive emotions - fresh air, birdsong and a complete feeling of freedom!

When a person begins to see beauty in simple things, he becomes happier.

If we could clearly see the miracle of one flower, our whole life would change... Buddha

This bouquet turned out to be not just cute and funny, but also useful. The cat Musya appreciated it and enjoyed it with pleasure.

In the middle of summer it is much easier to become the owner of a bouquet. But for the winter season, a bouquet is a real gift. Is it worth waiting for such a miracle? Create it yourself - plant a real one at home and enjoy your garden every day.

How can we see the world as beautiful and unusual if we walk with our heads down?

As if they had lost something... Yes, many have really lost their sense of reality, good mood, optimism, desire to be kind, sympathetic...
And then there’s rain, dampness, and puddles. If we walk looking down at our feet, then let's admire the world in the reflections of puddles. Look at the world through the eyes of children, photographers and artists, or lovers.

There are many examples when you can see the unusual in simple things.

Whether you notice a miracle or not depends on your own desire - to focus on the bad, or try to see and appreciate the little things, without which the world would be incomplete.

The desire to see beauty does not mean at all that it is necessary to turn a blind eye to things, actions and events that require intervention and correction.

People who tend to feel more deeply are distinguished from others by their special responsibility for maintaining peace and harmony in it. I would like to hope that the majority are like this.

How to regain the ability to see the world as beautiful and amazing?

• Flexibility of mind can be developed, which sharpen all senses
• Can . They can help you get away from the hustle and bustle
• Walk (travel) and observe more.
• Read classics, listen to beautiful music.
• Get creative: or take photographs.
• Get involved in charity.

Sometimes, the discovery of love for an unusual environment (objects and even people) occurs very slowly.

The beauty that a person discovers for himself makes the deepest impressions.

Unfortunately, many people begin to appreciate simple things and little things only when they find themselves in extreme situations, dramatically changing their living conditions.

Don't be afraid to be strange, move away from imposed beauty templates, learn to see the beautiful in the ordinary, the unusual in the simple. And be sure to be happy! Life is good, isn't it?