The Kaleidoscope of Life

If you are having trouble pronouncing the name of the blog, i have listed the phonetics below for your convenience. Phonetically it is pronounced as Kuh-lie-do-scope. There you go, you should have got it now. Why i named my blog as such if you may ask, well that is the sole purpose as to why I'm writing this blog now.

A kaleidoscope is a circle of mirrors containing loose bits of beads, pebbles and glass. As the viewer looks through one end of the scope, the light entering from the other end creates a colorful pattern due to the reflection on the mirrors. The word Kaleidoscope is derived from ancient Greek, Kalos means "beautiful beauty" eidos means "that is which seen, form, shape" and skopeō  means "observer of beautiful forms"

It is my strong conviction that the ancient Greek description of the kaleidoscope really fits my personality. I'm a person who finds beauty through any shape, form or size and thus is "an observer of beautiful forms". Now that i have shed some light about myself, one might still wonder as to why i named my blog as such.

Well let me tell you why.

I find life to be very similar to the kaleidoscope.

Yet again please allow me to explain my analogy.

What do you think life is made out of? If you ask me i would say choices.

And how many ways in which do you think your life could change because of a choice that you make? again if you ask me i would say the number is infinite.

Now let me share with you an interesting piece of information about the kaleidoscope that i haven't mentioned before. As you view through a kaleidoscope you  would see a colorful pattern. But as you rotate the kaleidoscope, the pattern completely changes it's shape and color. And as you keep rotating the patterns changes giving you a whole new picture every time you rotate it. But still beautiful.

It might slowly start unraveling to you as to why i said that i find Life and the Kaleidoscope to be similar.
Just like how the Kaleidoscope is made of mirrors, our lives are made of choices. And just like how we see the changing of patterns as we rotate the Kaleidoscope, we see our life change right in front of our eyes because of the choices we make. Personally just like everyone i regretted some of the choices that i had made in my life before. I saw my life drastically change. At one time i was in the zenith of happiness and the very next second i was pushed into the darkest dungeons, loathing in pain and suffering. I had monumental victories reaching the epitome of success in my professional career, but i failed miserably in love. I was bombarded with these constant and capricious changes which i couldn't bear at one time.

I disliked these changes to the core and i wanted my life to be as straight as a line. But this "want" only lasted until i became "observer of beautiful forms". I realized that change is the only thing that is inevitable, and when i started seeing my life changing, and i saw beauty in it. Now i accept and adore change in my life. And they say "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder". I see beauty in my life. Because none of the patterns are unattractive in the Kaleidoscope. And none of the choices and changes are unattractive in the Kaleidoscope of Life.