I think another thing that tends to keep me from blogging everyday is that the events of my life are generally the same each day that goes by. That said, it’d be boring even for me to sit down and write that I fussed with things on Aeon for a while, then I went to pick up my mom from work. After that I slept for a while before waking up and going to work for (x) amount of hours. Leaving work, I returned home and sat around doing stuff with Aeon for a while… ad infinitum. On the occasions that I do have something happen throughout the course of the day that I’m writing about, of course I’ll tell about it, but on other days, I’ve decided that a good idea to fill the empty would be to take a quote from those I receive in my email every night and analyze it against my own thoughts. Not only would it make up for having my posts so spaced out, but it just might also give someone some things to think about of their own. Now that that’s over, the quote I’ve selected for tonight goes a little something like this:
“The past is rarely remembered without sorrow, for it has been either better or worse than the present.”
–Leonora Christina
Firstly, I must say that I agree with the statement as a whole. It is true that more often than not, whenever we think about the past, if the things we’re thinking about are good times we’ve had compared to now, we often state the phrase, “Good times…” in a reminiscent tone, such that indicates a longing for the return of those times. Else, if we are thinking of past times of grief and sorrow, we are often filled with the memory of what caused such emotions back then and are driven to feel as we did when the events took place, regardless of whether we have reason to or not.
For example, if I think back on times from when I was still in school, I remember the good times I had with my friends and all the new experiences that came my way. I smile as I think of it, but at the same time, I long to be able to have times like that again, and am thusly sorrowful at the lack thereof. On the other hand, I can think back also to times when someone that I loved or was close to had died, and remembering their death awakens the void their absence left within me and again I find myself grieving the loss.
These words not only speak the truth, but also tell of the power that emotion itself has over us. That merely remembering something that occurred in the past that caused us to feel a strong emotion can bring about the feeling of that emotion once more or a longing to experience the emotion again indicates that without it, we’re nothing more than fleshy robots with buggy programming and the inability to learn or adapt.
Any thoughts?
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