The Aesthetics of Movement
To move through each challenge and obstacle with poise; to respond to calamity with composure and to defeat with resonant dignity
An awareness of our motion — of the kinetic flow behind all things — can shed some light on our own progress and help us gauge whether our maneuvering is, at the very least, aesthetically pleasing and, at the very most, effectual for our own benefit.
“Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.”
— Alfred Adler
There’s something unknowingly mesmerizing about movement, something we don’t ever really take a moment to consider: that movement in itself is capable of aesthetic meaning. This fact holds a lot of potential, as movement can thus become an indicator of truth or a means to measure progress.
It’s a bit of an abstract argument but there’s a takeaway nonetheless.
Whether it’s our own movement or that of external forces and whether it’s tangible and physical movement or merely symbolic progression, movement in itself is capable of this aesthetic truth — something that…
