The zealous romantic, the
austere realist, and the hopeless cynic. The zealous romantics appreciate their
pulchritudinous surroundings to a fault. They embrace the naivety of their
aspirations by excluding pragmatic solutions. While people decay with time, the
romantic idolizes the immortality of their idea; the idea that love isn’t an ephemeral
force but rather an innate proclivity.
The austere realists are
neutralized by their own logical reasoning and take nothing more than what the
world gives them. They have been inured to conduct an internal feasibility
analysis when approaching decisions. Their cautious nature and cookie-cutter
approaches are presented as realistic. However, the austere realists are
defending their defense mechanisms designed to obviate the impact of failing by
rationalizing failure.
The hopeless cynic is
ensnared by negative thought and misanthropy. While there is a famous adage
proclaiming that “a cynic is a disappointed romantic,” I am inclined to
interpret them as the final transformation of a romantic. While the
transformation can move backwards, as in the cynic transforming to a romantic,
my own life experiences and interactions with people have proved that a
caterpillar cocoons into a butterfly; the butterfly doesn’t abdicate its power
to fly by devolving into a caterpillar.
The connection in this Omne
trium perfectum is based on the transformational phases of mankind. The zealous
romantic finds the bastion of hope within their youth. They grow into the
austere realist that are cognizant of life’s parameters. Lastly, they self-destruct
into the hopeless cynic only to be born again.
