Seeing very beautiful people gives me a very mixed feeling. I feel happy, because it's nice to look at someone beautiful, or anything that's aesthetically pleasing at all anyway. I feel sad, not because I'm jealous or want their looks for myself, but I feel like there's nothing you can do about it. But let me explain.
If you look at a still piece of art, there is not usually the need to interact with it. The observation is often enough, and often meant as the purpose.
When I look at a beautiful person that I will never meet again, I feel like something will possibly be lost. It might not be big, but great things don't always come in great big packages.
But I'll never get to know that person, never get overwhelmed to know someone so beautiful so closely, never even hope to know what I've missed when they've gone by.
Have you ever seen something so beautiful to you, like sunlight at a perfect angle, or even something like a beautiful and well-crafted advertisement, or even an awesome design on a t-shirt, and had some sort of unexpressed feeling, even if briefly, that you wanted to take it with you, that you wanted it?
People take pictures, right? And don't so many of them take pictures in order to try and catch a moment in something still so time won't steal it away, and they can try to show others how it felt?
When I see beautiful and interesting people that I will never meet again, I couldn't even capture the worth that I feel I'm missing through a camera.
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I know what you're talking about..but I usually get the urge to draw them instead of take pictures. As you may remember from my italy pictures, I tend not to take pictures of people :p
The thing is, I feel about as pointless sneaking a picture of a beautiful person as I would when trying to take pictures of gorgeous cathedrals or wide open scenery to show people. It helps, but... it never comes close to the feeling. To me, it's almost kind of futile to try.
The urge to draw them is an interesting take. I get the same feeling sometimes, but I'm a lot further than you from having the dependable skill to even try, so it's kind of different.
It occurs to me that Lestat (:p) said something similar, possibly in the Vampire Lestat.
I don't really have anything else to add, just find that amusing me.
I read The Vampire Lestat this summer, but I don't quite remember that. I didn't take any part of this idea from that book, though!
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