Vintage Comments

Okay, so whoever is still reading my blog, every so often i am going to be highlighting a comment from yesteryear, times of olds and what not: so for the first vintage comment let me post one by lachy in response to my diatribe on the english faculty at uni of newcastle:

You can't hold onto anything

so as i reminice and spell incorrectly, i realize that certain notions that we had while younger are completely encapsulated in a moment of time, yet we hold onto them as though we can't exist without such youthful visions o fthe world. It is like holding onto something, which we believe to be true but in the greater existence of the world it is only a fleeting memory. I guess what i'm trying to say is that we have all these dreams and hopes and what not, but they are so fleeting, and that any moment in our lives that we think 'wow this is cool, this is what lifes about,' is also fleeting, it's like everything is fleeting and moving so fast that pretty soon we will be dead.

i always thought my early twenties would go on forever, i used to think that time moved very slowly, but as i age not only do i realize that no values are important because it all ends so quick but so is time itself. It moves so darn quick that it's hard to work out who we are as a person. so if we like something one day, then who is to say it is important the next day, because it's like some sort of endless maturing process keeps changing our own value system.

But then it also seems like some people don't change, like in my work where i see old fogeys who have had the same ideals for the past thirty years, and seem to be happy without any growth and happy to cash each week's pay cheque. So how do they fit into my system of thinking. well i have absolutely no freaking idea, because it seems as though only a few people are enlightened and the rest are mindless drones, happy to take their boat out each saturday, and i;m thinking why the hell are they so happy by simply working all week and taking their boat out each saturday, why aren't they thinking why am i even here!!!!

so even if you catch a beautiful sunrise and have breakfast on your patio and watch the sun rise, it is such a fleeting moment, that you can't get upset when its gone, or think if that was such a beautiful moment in life why the hell doesn't it last, why can't the rest of my life be bathed in such beauty . well i have no idea, perhaps its the old ying and yang, like you can't know happiness without knowing sadness or what not, i don't know. i just know that even a beautiful moment moves by us too quickly...