Beauty as use

This August, my family and I have been traveling around North Macedonia (visited country #66 🤤) and came to realize the need for beauty in our daily lives.

Macedonian people are incredibly friendly and kind, but Skopje, its capital, is simply cold and uninspiring.

It just doesn't evoke any feelings (at least to me).

Worse than that, our apartment was in front of the Marriott hotel in Macedonia Square, the main square in the city. And even though that seemed good, once we entered our building it was completely dark, electric cables falling from the ceiling, a flickering light that hurt your eyes, and an elevator that closed its doors even while you were entering.

So I started feeling somehow sad... not because of the people or the food, just because of what I was seeing.

Can you compare this?

terminal

To this?

terminal

So I came to realize the same problem applies to software that I have always considered ugly: The Terminal.

terminal

I wasn't born into a terminal day-to-day life, so to me even a "~/.zshrc" seems completely ugly, so I decided to use iTerm2 and customize its design (took me 30 minutes).

terminal

Funny thing, now I use it every day. I like what I see: colors, font, background...

Beauty is the ultimate quality standard for a good life:

  • A beautiful hometown
  • A beautiful body
  • A beautiful partner
  • A beautiful family
  • A beautiful software
  • A beautiful car ...

And don't get me wrong. I mean beautiful, not expensive.