Somewhere is Here

I heard in Art History class that the idea of a Muslim reflecting pool is that the reflection of the actual world representing the otherworldly heaven. A reflecting pool is manmade, but does the same apply to a lake? Because the lake I've spent the weekend in front of has shown me exactly the color blue of the sky, and the underwings of a bird, and the shape of the sun before it sets over the mountains. I was just wondering if that exactly is the otherworldly, if I am living in a state of perpetual perfection and I just don't know it. Things don't seem perfect at all. But maybe perfection doesn't exist and a bit of happiness at last is as good as it gets.