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How do you deal with overwhelming beauty? This can take many forms, could be music, art, people... for me personally it happens a lot with music. There are certain things which I have to avoid because I legitimately find them distressingly beautiful. It is a feeling that I have been trying to figure out for a very long time now, but I just can't find a way to deal with it, and worst, the more I have thought about it over the years, the worst it has become.
I am curious to know if this is a common thing people experience, and how people cope with it.

I want to reiterate, I'm not talking about a simple "wow, this is so beautiful I am literally in awe", but rather actual distress. Like "holy fuck what am I supposed to do / feel about this thing I'm experiencing."

>> No.23343548

>>23342886
I cannot relate to your specific feeling, but I sometimes avoid beauty because it reminds me of the ugliness of the place I live in, the ugliness of my life, of my own ugliness

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23343560

>>23342886
Happens a for me with women

>> No.23343580

>>23342886
This never happened to me. In fact, the opposite happens a lot. I see things, people, etc. and think of how much better it could be. "That girl is pretty hot, but her legs could be longer" "That song was pretty good, but the ending could have been better"
I can't always explain it, and I don't try to. But I do know that it can be better.

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>>23343548
Although it's not the same feeling as mine, I can totally see your viewpoint. I have also considered it being about jealousy before, which I guess could be a little related, where I am just basically mad I can't create that piece of art, so I avoid it for those reason. The other possibility I have is just greed, as in having the need to consume this thing so completely that it pains me not to be able to do so, almost as if the only real way to placate this feeling is to *become* the piece of music, or painting, or whatever.

In reality maybe these are just deflections. The actual feeling is something which feels a little more alien, but I'm not sure.

>>23343560
Yes, me too. Not just looking, but I constantly have a similar feeling towards women in my life, where I'm unsure what I want from them. I want to have them, I want to be them, I want to fuck them, I want to be had by them, ... it never ends, but at the same time, it all feels woefully inadequate. At some point it feels like nothing short of colliding into them at an atomic level and just disappearing from existence will do.

>> No.23343981

https://youtu.be/_ZAgIHmHLdc

>> No.23344008

>>23342886
care to share some of this music that leaves you in awe?

>> No.23344033

>>23342886
Name a song so I can judge you instead of giving you advice or inspiration.

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23344044

>>23344008
>>23344033
>Expose yourself so that we can derail the thread by making fun of you
I don't think I will.

>> No.23344051

>>23342886
I unironically live that "god pls give me a bigger prefrontal cortex.. NOOOO take it back".
I know way too much and see too much. Too much knowledge can fuck you up. This also allows me to see the beauty in the world, and I do feel like you sometimes, sometimes I feel nauseous from how beautiful I find everything and how happy it makes me

>> No.23344067

>>23344044
i was genuinely asking, OP. im feeling receptive to some sincere and sublime art at the moment.

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>>23344051
>I feel nauseous from how beautiful I find everything and how happy it makes me
I often struggle to explain myself around the topic because people automatically think beauty -> happy. This is not a desirable feeling, and it's not something that makes me happy, hence why I made the original distinction between awe and distress. This is like feeling a pull towards something that you cannot see, which is hidden inside these beautiful things, but which you are incapable of understanding or actually attaining. When not engaging too hard everything is fine, you'll just assume it's the beautiful think that you want and you just engage with that and move on with your life, but when you really invest emotion into certain thinks it's very apparent that it isn't the full picture. There is something else there that you can't even understand, let alone have, and it just makes you feel like there's no answers to anything. Thats the feeling I get.

>> No.23344869

>>23342886
You sound like the pseud faggot kid from the plastic bag scene in American Beauty lmao

>> No.23344878

>>23342886
> I'm not talking about a simple "wow, this is so beautiful I am literally in awe", but rather actual distress. Like "holy fuck what am I supposed to do / feel about this thing I'm experiencing."

This has never happened to me.

>> No.23344919

>>23342886
Ascribe faux-religious significance to it, since it's divine and not human. Many people have their most significant emotional feeling every Sunday, so I understand that I can't limit myself to it only once in a lifetime, but I only do it in the right circumstances (2 a.m. and can't sleep, for instance). Sometimes it seems like it accidentally exists from a higher plane, but now I sound like a greecaboo philosophy major without a life.