The "Real" talk:

So today's lecture was on the topic of what is "real". Well I will start off with the definition of real.
Real- existing or occurring as fact; actual rather than imaginary,ideal, or fictitious
Beauty- the quality present in a thing or person that gives intensepleasure or deep satisfaction to the mind, whether arising from sensory manifestations (as shape, color, sound, etc.),a meaningful design or pattern, or something else (as a personality in which high spiritual qualities are manifest)
These two words have such simple sounding definitions, yet such a complex "reality". What is real? What makes real things real? If it is always real to me, is it always real to someone else? We used an example of a plastic rose in class and was asked if it would be real. By using the given definition of real, it says "not imaginary". Well the plastic rose may not grow, but you can see it, you can hold it, therefore it is not imaginary. Does that make it real or is it still not? What is real, and reality, is not a set fact of rules, it's what each person makes of it. Beauty is another word of specific-to-each meaning. Beauty is what gives one person satisfaction, so ones meaning of beauty is theirs, not someone else's. 
Try putting the two words together and you go from having two words of many meanings to one term of no meaning. This is because those words have opposite and not specific definitions. They are contradictions. We all (probably) saw those skittles commercial about the contradictions (Timmy the albino lifeguard and The scotch-korean!)


My beauty is the real beauty of my own reality and no one else's.