Generation Hence

When it’s a sunny day and you sit down to relax, if you’re lucky you will get that coolish blast of air known as a light breeze.  As soon as that kicks in so do the inevitable musings, those thoughts of epic consideration about life and its wonders and all that…sadly my mind was devoid of such thoughts, landing on my feet though, even though I was sat down at the time,  I remembered a couple of blog posts that had particularly fascinated me recently.

I was reading Robyn’s latest, magical effort These Days the other day and we got into a fascinating discussion about, well, many things, as is the way we banter. Firstly there was a point about books and blogs that are both new and old to the reader.  Once read those words are committed to memory but are not set in stone, for they constantly rewrite themselves according to your understanding and they can change your perspectives at every rereading.

Our experiences and knowledge constantly evolve your views on life and how you interpret what has gone before.  Couple this with the sheer inevitability of the knowledge that you will always do this and do it constantly, it does make you wonder, do we ever truly know anything or do we just exist in states of perpetual learning?

Reading These Days, I analyzed it as I can’t help but do and came up with, as I later mentioned in the comments box regarding Robyn’s words that they contained “a hint of melancholy(the good kind), nostalgia, vitality, love, the feeling of forever, living in the now” vibe.  To which the wondrous Mrs R. replied “I think you picked up the “pulse” of this maybe more precisely then I was even conscious of while composing it”.  This happens everyday to all of us, whether we know it or not, people read more into our work than we probably see ourselves.  Not only can we pass it off as a ‘oh good, you spotted that’ sort of moment when your intellect receives a boost at the unexpected depth to your work but it also opens us up to how diverse and powerful a sentence can be to someone, somewhere whom we may have nothing in the slightest bit in common.

What I love about words and writers is that sometimes people see patterns or ideas that perhaps weren’t consciously thought of or perhaps not as developed as they may be, or perhaps just not intended at all and someone comes by has one read and sees a myriad of different rainbow like sculptures of thought different or perhaps a variation on the authors work. – Me.

The second thing we discussed was “ about human emotions” that are “timeless” – living on, generation after generation (at the beach perhaps).  I love this motif, a shared bonding experience between age groups associated by certain places, such as the beach or perhaps Coney Island (I hear this is a good one although I only have books and films to back this up and have no idea if it counts or not). 

LuAnn says it in her wonderfully evocative post Summer Fun ~ Kid Style, “No matter what your upbringing I suspect the kickoff of summer elicits memories of sun-drenched days, when nothing was more important that cramming as many outdoor activities as possible into your weeks before school bells began tolling once again”.

I like that thought, emotions living on generation to generation, I think places associate themselves with a certain emotion. Well to be precise people do that to start with and then it becomes a tradition and then everyone just accepts it. I love this line of thought.

Both of these points raise interesting issues, there is generational and inter-generational, as well as international nostalgic feelings but we are always in a state of complete flux, each one of us forever changing our opinions, with new facts that inevitably create a ripple effect on our other opinions and ingrained ‘truths’.

So where am I going with this…well I guess I wonder how we stay sane?  We are obviously roiling up our brains nostop yet have an affinity with people from lands distant.  I have no idea though,  for the sun is yet again shining on me and making thinking a bit of a chore but I think living in the here and now is the only way to experience and perceive anything, despite the knowledge that just by living and interacting you change your past and future ideals and beliefs all of the time.   I’d think about this some more but I’d only change my opinion…