your choice of "birth", "laughter" and "sunset" as beautiful things reflect a soul that is "death", "sorrow" and "sunrise"

Sounds very Orwellian, musick, as in "War is Peace".

I would have thought the more obvious interpretation is the concommitant, not the converse.

If one believes in epiphanies, it doesn't take the presence of another to experience singular beauty, even in the most ordinary of things.