what do you think this means?

Question

What do you think this means:

"there is a beauty in the fall of conviction"

just wondering
please explain it too

It's the name of a poem someone showed me.

But honestly, I hardly understood most of your explaination. I mean, I understood it because it was in English, but do you think you could do a more literal translation of it. All I really got out of it was your explaination.

Thanks

Answer 1

to lose ones beliefs or ideals, while commonly perceived as a negative thing, or a weakness, can also be liberating. it may make available possibilities experiences and options that were not there before. or that were deliberately abstained from.
in other words, it could be the start of a whole new life.

i really enjoy that phrase; the way it juxtaposes sentiment that connotes positive (beauty) with negative (fall of conviction) yet still makes perfect sense. where did it come from?

seriously? a more "literal" translation? do you know what literal means?
OK then, here ya go.
beauty: the quality present in a thing or person that gives intense pleasure or deep satisfaction to the mind
fall: to drop or descend under the force of gravity, as to a lower place through loss or lack of support.
conviction: a fixed or firm belief.
so, from these definitions we can derive the "literal" meaning to be:
there is a quality present in the decent and lack of support of fixed and firm beliefs that gives intense pleasure.

Answer 2

Got an idea for a great analogy for this!

Ronny Reagan was a Democrat at first. He changed his 'convictions', per se, and became a Republican.

Eventually he was elected President of The United States - twice!

For him and the GOP that was a beautiful fall of conviction!

Answer 3

when you finally let your "moral" code down there is an almost "high" you get from letting it go. It feels good to be bad sometimes.