“All that shimmers in this world is sure to fade away.”
-Fuel

All of the beauty, the intense and captivating external attractiveness of this world which, as the fashionable group Fuel argues, surely fades in its temperance, all the beauty hints to an everlasting, eternal, and extraordinary world. Perhaps we, as members of a community with aesthetic qualities, should gaze at these natural worldly wonders and transform them into something of real substance and permanence, as children imaginatively use make believe to carry them through whimsical paths- a simple stream transformed into a majestic transporter into an ancient battle scene, or a magical shimmering pool of thousands of diamonds- diamond soup perchance. Furthermore, a leaf falling from an autumn tree creatively dances in the breeze, taking on a personality all its own, zig zagging shapes into thin air which dissolve as the rambunctious breeze picks up and sweeps them into never land. A snowflake mischievously drops heavily from the sky and suddenly, as if it changes its mind and immediately regrets pulling so rapidly, decides to drastically reduce the speed of its fateful journey to join its siblings on the comfort of earth, and spins, leaps, flies energetically through the air as if embracing its travels despite the frightful feeling of free fall. And therefore, let us never forget the child’s imagination that, like the stream and the leaf and the snowflake, dance through life, rejoicing in its possibilities and reaching to every corner of its limitations. Only then does the occasional falseness of shimmer and shine transform into something eternally tangible.