The Economic Times

Philosophy lesson for the day: 'Nothing ever ends poetically. It ends and we turn it into poetry. All that blood was never once beautiful. It was just red...' - Why trauma and suffering are often romanticised by people

The philosophy lesson of the day revolves around a widely shared quote by poet Kait Rokowski that challenges the way people perceive pain and memory. The line suggests that painful experiences are not poetic or beautiful in themselves, but are later reshaped by human memory into something meaningful so they can be emotionally processed. It highlights how people often romanticize heartbreak, trauma, and loss after the fact, even though, in reality, suffering is raw and unembellished in the moment.