Beauty escapes us when we focus our lives instead upon isolating ourselves in our own worries and concerns, anger, resentments, backbittings, and feeding all manner of negativities in our lives. It is in effect shutting us out and away from the the world and others.
It's like the story of two little boys, one is an optimist, and the other is a pessimist. The pessimist was put in an elaborate toy store and sulked in a corner because there was nothing to do. They walked in on the optimist and found him in a room filled nearly to the ceiling with manure, with his legs flailing in the air and his head down in the manure pile. They asked him what he was doing, so he said "with all this manure, I know that there is a pony in here somewhere, and I am going to find it."
As we go through life, some millionaires commit suicide after years of moaning about their fate. While, another person, maybe of poor means, happily finds things to do for himself and for society. He doesn't focus on his needs and sadness. Rather, he focuses on the needs of others, and finds fulfillment by helping others. Often people write that they are sad and don't know what they can do. They focus on themselves, rather on those around them.
Look at the huge homeless population in America. Surely the government should do something....maybe porto-potties to keep rodents from eating their feces and spreading germs (plague). Maybe fresh water could be available? Many tiny houses could be built for them with composting toilets? The few projects for the homeless spend a fortune and get very little. Skyscraper housing is sometimes destroyed by the homeless in merely a year.
Our politicians are focused on cutting taxes for the rich and figuring out how to pay as little for wages as possible. When W. Bush did that, factories were outsourced to China, and Americans lost their jobs (some were forced to train their unqualified counterparts). Defective steel, defective manufacturing, and defective workmanship caused Chinese parts to be unreliable. Trump tried to move jobs and factories back to America (before COVID) hit.
It isn't just about ignoring the beauty around us, it is also about ignoring the opportunities. Greed blinds some to the economic realities. Sometimes it is cheaper to pay for a person to get medical attention so they don't lose a leg, then lose their job for lack of a leg, then lose their wife for lack of a job, then lose their kids for lack of a wife.
Politicians are short sighted, and often deregulate those things that keep us from losing money. Bank deregulation allowed banks to loan out more money than people could afford, when housing prices dropped, and this caused the huge recession in the final year of W. Bush's administration in 2008.
As President Bill Clinton tried to balance trade around the world (and he created a surplus in the economy when he did so), he was chastised by the greedy of Congress who didn't want to pay for plane fares. They took away his fast-track trade powers, and had to argue among themselves about each trade pact. They back-bit Clinton, and ruined the US economy as a result.