When you look online for “Taj Mahal trash”, you might stumble upon pictures of piles of trash and, behind them, the well-known Taj Mahal. Looking at the picture, there would be two points of focus: the palace and the trash. Focusing on the former is an optimistic way of viewing; focusing on the latter is a pessimistic way of viewing. The important thing here is that the photo is one whole, meaning that there is both pessimism and optimism, both good and bad in it. This is what the world is to me: both pretty buildings and amazing nature, but also natural disasters and human negligence. Looking at the Taj Mahal, the good, the beautiful, you would see the bad, the ugly, the trash. It goes both ways—behind the trash, you would see the palace. Behind the good lies the bad; behind the beautiful, lies the ugly; behind the rainbow, lies the rain. We cannot run away from the bad, but it is also our choice to see the good and to embrace it.
The Taj Mahal, located in India, is a symbol of love, greatness, beauty, a symbol of India, and one of the World Wonders. It is one of the most gorgeous palaces in the whole world. From every angle that you look at it, in every picture, it shines bright. In life, there are people that shine as bright as the palace. The people that, no matter what, are going to be your light through thick and thin. In the picture, the light is the Taj Mahal that shines despite the hardships. Even though you might see some ugliness in this picture, what is important here is that, through the trash, the Taj Mahal is still visible and shines bright. No matter the background or the circumstances, this picture or the palace are always going to be brighter because, as I see the world, the good is always going to shine through.
One picture says hundreds, even thousands, of words. One picture can make you go through different emotions, show you different stories. Just like that, one life does the same. It has both hardships and good moments that make you feel different emotions in the span of days, hours, minutes. One life is enough to show you the good, the bad, and everything in between, just like that one picture is able to do the same. The picture of the Taj Mahal with the trash is not only what it seems on the surface; it has a story. The life that we have is not what it seems to the people on the outside; it also has a story. The picture that we see is the reality of someone else, and, judging the picture, we might be judging someone’s life.
A picture can be easily compared to life because it captures it. It is hard to explain the whole wide world with just one picture because it is more than it seems. Additionally, the world that we live in cannot be only black and white, good and evil, beauty and pain. It has everything, in most cases at the same time. The picture of the Taj Mahal with the garbage represents just that: everything in one place. The picture is complicated to explain—why, how, who—just like that, the world that we live in is hard to explain, but we can surely try to. What is more, we can try to make it better, after we understand the concept and the backstory of life and the picture. Because photos are not artificially created, they represent the real world.