Genius..borrowed?

                           Have you ever had this feeling of kneeling down in front of something great,brilliant or simply a job well done? A brilliant  note in music,a sentence that opens up a whole new universe,or a breath-taking painting that takes you to a new dimension or simply even an everyday meal that is cooked perfectly... Things that let you see the  greatness or intricacy of human mind and still gives you hope that man is still in the quest for the greater truth  :)

                          And bang!!! And what when you are contemplating such genius, you are brought to the realisation that it's nothing but a reduced shadow or borrowed illusion of something greater?In the past few months , these kind of experiences have become more frequent for me.A chance remark of "what a brilliant song or plot or movie etc.? " elicits a response of  "Did you know that this was copied from a Spanish folk song/French book/English movie" usually makes me hate the whole of mankind for a second and then just console myself ,at least the original was a work of a genius... :)

                         So nowadays, I have stopped expressing my wonder at such brilliant things and guard myself against deeper knowledge and just live the moment.

                  All said and done, I am still a slave to that one moment of sheer joy when you see the beauty of a genius... So all ye brilliant people out there , keep creating and not just borrowing...

P.S.
                 On a tangent ,one of the main reasons that I hesitated to start this blog is that since I read so many books, I'll not even know if a thought,or phrase or an idea expressed was influenced by a book (What a safeguard against attacks of plagiarism :)).