Beauty's trapping...Illusions

Zen will say all things are illusions since all things  happen in everyone's' minds.  Beauty for some can have a narcotic effect to the point were we can fall in love very quickly.  Very quickly be brain washed really.  Though there is no real magic like in Harry Potter one can say that falling in love in nothing more than a spell that is cast on us.  If we are one of those people who fall in love with beautiful things because we tend to romanticize everything and not see the reality then we are under a spell.  A spell that can lead to our down fall or just set us up for failure big time.


In the ODYSSEY Odysseus was coming home from  war and he fell victim to the Sirens, the naked women singing on the rocks that cast spell on sailors and then destroy their ships as they crash into the large rocks they sit on.  I beauty as this, not just a beautiful woman, but anything that creates a fantasy aspect in our lives.  Music, food, television, people, the list goes on and on.  We can become so hypnotized that we lose touch with reality and it affects our decision making.  How can we make good smart and effective decisions when really can't see what is going on or maybe we really don't want to see what is going on.
One would need to learn to counter act this dark magic that effects our judgement with something like occlumency.  

In Harry Potter, snape teaches Harry to block things from entering his mind by using a spell called occlumency. 
In real life we simply need to remind ourselves that what we see is not always what we get and that simply relying on fantasy will surely makes us unhappy in reality.