Painting

A painting is like any human being, a unique masterpiece.  Each painting is never the same even if the subject is. The same painter never has the same mood when drawing out his brushes to paint a picture. Hence each one of us is extraordinary but why then do we feel lesser or greater than others?    

We place a value in each painting  and the value determines how we  treat it. If it has no intrinsic value we tend to discard it with no respect to the painter. This is happening in our daily lives.  We give an object an intrinsic value, and we act accordingly to its worth.  We cling on to higher prestige in exchange for respect and recognition. We choose to see the glory but fail to see the efforts behind it. In short, we want short cuts.

We are our own painter of life. We should rejoice in accepting different paintings as they are.  Because we need them when we travel our life's journey.  Their imperfections help us to observe how we can perfect ourselves.

Life is very dynamic and fragile for it is only one breath away.  We only know to relate life and death with the tangibles. The intangibles, e.g. our breath within us, we do not notice it. But it is the basis of both life and death.  How do we want to give life to our paintings, this depends on our level of appreciation and understanding of how each painting is so unique and extraordinary that even God is in awe.