Do you feel tired and boring in life? Do you have a pair of eyes that find beauty?
When you are tempered by life without edges and corners, without temper, when walking on the road, can you still see beautiful little flowers?
In "My World of Beauty" by Japanese female writer Jasmine Mori, the definition of beauty is interpreted in a comprehensive and multi-angle manner.
This book contains 79 short life essays of Mori Jasmine, through the observation and comment of bits and pieces of life, showing readers the unique charm of "Mori-style aesthetics", and also allowing us to see the daily life of a cute old lady with personality and unique vision.
As Mori herself said, "Even without love, life can be rose-colored." ”
01 About the author
Born in 1903, Mori was well-to-do as a child. Many articles have commented on her intimate relationship with her father, Mori Ouwai, and I think that no matter what the truth is, the seeds planted by everyone's childhood will nourish this person for a lifetime.
Although Mori has suffered two marriage changes and began to write for her own livelihood after the age of fifty, she lets readers see a very cool old lady who is not afraid of the eyes of others and only pursues what she likes.
In "My Beautiful World", her observations of life are all-encompassing, and her language is extremely innocent and naughty, making people feel that she is a dashing, unsettled girl in life, rather than being as poor and embarrassed as the actual situation.
I have always felt that people's luck may be so much, if the first half of life is too smooth, the second half of life will encounter some setbacks; If the first half of life is too bitter, the second half of life will definitely have sweetness.
Mori Jasmine may have used up all her luck in the first half of her life, and in the second half of her life, she only had a little bit of shelter, no money and no partner, only a cat as a companion.
The world's eyes may think that this is a lonely and miserable single old lady, who does not know which day it will disappear, right? But Mori tells us, even if that's the case, what does it matter? I'm still the girl who will always be 18 years old, and I'm still the old lady with sharp eyes and accurate comments.
How about being poor? What about loneliness? Life is still full of beauty.
This is more transparent than the vast majority of people live.
02 Interpretation of favorite things
In the book, Mori said: "I am greedy for beautiful love, greedy for jewelry and gemstones, and greedy for glass. So I will never pursue love in the real world, and of course I will not look for jewelry, gemstones, or glass, but only look forward to accidental encounters. ”
As she herself said, the things that particularly attract her are actually unattainable, and if it is not destined by fate, it will not feel beautiful.
Only in the unexpected encounter of nature will you have the opportunity to discover, feel, and even meet your beloved things.
In the book, she recounts that she has had an almost fanatical obsession with glass since childhood.
In fact, this obsession can also find its roots.
When she was young, for some reason, she could only stay at home and could not go out to play, and she often stuck her face to the glass door and looked through the blurry glass to see the courtyard outside.
It was not until she was old that she finally had a territory of her own, although it was only a small and simple broken house, but she enjoyed it, calling herself the "lord of the castle" and living a life of solipsism.
Glass is still a very important thing in her life, whether it is a glass bottle or an ordinary glass window, which fascinates her.
"Even without love, life can be rose-colored."
Mori Jasmine has been implementing this belief all her life, even in old age, the lively and beating girl's heart has not aged, which is very rare for a person who has gone through thousands of sails.
03 Life is beautiful everywhere
In the book, Mori says, "If I were young, giving me a little lion or panther would satisfy me more than introducing me to a boyfriend." ”
This free attitude will make people very touched, because in her heart, if it is not a particularly top-notch boy, it is not as attractive as a lion or a leopard, so don't do it.
Later, she adopted a small black cat named Juliet, and this companionship was 13 years.
From its practical secular point of view, Mori Jasmine's old age cannot be called happy.
Celibacy, poverty, sloppiness...
But she explained that even if there is nothing, life is still full of beauty.
From "My Beautiful World", you will find that the insignificant things that were once in life are as if there is life in Mori's pen, and the smallest things in life are all sparkling.
Towels, kimonos, necklaces, shoes, glass, newspaper clippings, scarves, vests, gloves...
No money is not terrible, being alone is not a sin, what is important is, how do people spend their lives?
It's better to have a pair of eyes that can find beauty than to have everything and feel bored.
epilogue
"My Beautiful World" is a beautiful life book by the author, and it also gives profound inspiration to every reader.
Your eyes are sunny, and life is beautiful everywhere;
Your eyes are cloudy and your life is gray.
Only when there is light in the eyes can we find the beauty that is not easy to detect.