Originally posted by: manzilmukul
Sorry for landing late here.
You're not late. 😛
My questions:
1. Melancholy-Is it Romantic?
Melancholy is loaded with complexities. It’s a subtle,mature emotion.
Sometimes when it rains and the petrichor eases one’s soul,one can behold a live melancholic painting full of romance. So yes, melancholy is romantic. It’s uplifting and its touch elevates works of art. Nature paints the best pictures of a romantic, aesthetic melancholy.
Sometimes when earth’s miseries weight us down, we dream of an ideal world and view certain things as denizens of a romantic, immortal world.
Romance and beauty bestow us with an aesthetic delight and pleasure but soon the impermanence and meaninglessness of it all creeps in and one begins to lament the loss. The sense of loss, in my view, is important because life and death walk together. This realization inspires us to live the moment to the fullest because soon impermanence is going to dissolve it all into meaninglessness.
The best expression of romantic melancholy, in my view, is in Keats’ Ode to a Nightingale. The poet is in love with “easeful death”
I have been half in love with easeful Death,
Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme,
To take into the air my quiet breath;
Did it make sense? I think I got carried away by melancholy. 😆
2. What would you do if you are left in an island with Mr. Bajaj?
Dwell in a state of euphoria.
After re-gaining sanity, I'd discuss life with him, let him know how much I admire him, and then we would laugh like maniacs over those weird creatures in his life.
3. Charmers or Seducers? Who do you think are more appealing?
Charmers. 🤔
4. Love or Grief?
Love and grief co-exist. There's no grief without love. Grief sustains one's connection to the love that existed before it.
5. Sanity or Insanity?
Sanity is ordinary and doesn't appeal much. One touch of insanity makes an individual extraordinary. All geniuses in the world are touched by madness.
6. Cigarettes or Alcohol?
I'm a teetotaler. However, speaking from purely aesthetic point of view, cigarette smoke bestows some men with a brooding and enigmatic charm.
7. Smiles or Laughter?
Smiles. Because laughter is more of a social affair. Smile, in contrast, is private and carries deeper meaning.