Jan 29, 2009 17:40
In my mind I use the word "yebo" to mean "all things beautiful" (along with a few other meanings, Yes, Fuck, Fuckya, also a cheer or toast, as well as, largely in the same context, a prayer), which encompasses /ALL/ things beautiful, mountains, art, the idea that beauty can be called into existence by the eye of the beholder and a change of perspective. Along with that comes beautiful actions and that they make their actors beautiful and their actees loved, the infinitely repeating symmetry of the universe on every scale and how everything everywhere is perfectly unique at the same time as well as ceaselessly changing and always remaining the same.
On a more local or personal level there's, on rare occasions, the feeling of overwhelming comfort when all you know in the world is beauty and love. and that seems to push out any bad for the moment and leave perfect contentment. I mean that minute or two when you're so absorbed by the awesome beauty of your immediate surroundings that you can't know anything else for that time and there's nowhere you'd rather be, nothing else you want and no way to feel any better than you do. This feeling has been called "a hallelujah" or "moment of glory" but in essence it is the feeling of experiencing all things beautiful and for that time nothing negative. In other words, "yebo.
And then there's "Yeboseph," yebo + seph, a suffix term of endearment applied to people. So, all people beautiful or, all encompassing, beauty people. It's more a concept than any one person or even any group of people because it can't be used as a singular. One person can be a part of yeboseph but it is unknowably vast. My best approximation to a singular of the term, short of the less whimsical "beautiful person" or "beautiful people," is "ahavaseph" Ahava being the Hebrew word for love. So it akins something to "love dear" or "my love my darling" but certainly rolls of the tongue easier.