Somewhere in the middle of the list of things that annoy me (it's actually a short list), there lies the "annoying young person". And the the most annoying thing the annoying young person can possibly do to annoy me is to make the annoying comment that I'm "living in the past". It's true that things that pissed me off in the past have the tendancy to piss me off now. And it's also true that I almost never forget anything anyone ever says, especially if they piss me off. Yeah, I also prefer classic rock, fuckin' sue me.
The past is the only thing you can look to to figure shit out. You can't remember the future, you certainly can't learn from the future. And it's a sure bet that the future will probably suck a little more than the present.
No one truly lives in the past. Some people have their traditions, some people have their addictions, and there are some people you can rely on to never change (those people tend to annoy me).
If you can sit still long enough, you can see the future reveal itself from one corner of your line of sight to the other. I see the future connected to the past like blue is connected to red in a spectrum shift. Once, I was able to sit still long enough to see a shadow fall from a mountain peak miles away. It streaked like a spilled coffee, across the valley, and I was sitting in its' path watching it. I imagined feeling the temperature change, as if a black spotlight caught me and singled me out in a patch of faded sunshine. I've seen rays of sunlight appear in a similar fashion. But sunrises don't interest me as much as sunsets. In this way, I do favor the past.
Seeing the past and the future at the same time is... not a gift. It's the side-effect of living in the now.
So basically, I'm slow.
Leave your comment, I'll think about it in the future.
The past is the only thing you can look to to figure shit out. You can't remember the future, you certainly can't learn from the future. And it's a sure bet that the future will probably suck a little more than the present.
No one truly lives in the past. Some people have their traditions, some people have their addictions, and there are some people you can rely on to never change (those people tend to annoy me).
If you can sit still long enough, you can see the future reveal itself from one corner of your line of sight to the other. I see the future connected to the past like blue is connected to red in a spectrum shift. Once, I was able to sit still long enough to see a shadow fall from a mountain peak miles away. It streaked like a spilled coffee, across the valley, and I was sitting in its' path watching it. I imagined feeling the temperature change, as if a black spotlight caught me and singled me out in a patch of faded sunshine. I've seen rays of sunlight appear in a similar fashion. But sunrises don't interest me as much as sunsets. In this way, I do favor the past.
Seeing the past and the future at the same time is... not a gift. It's the side-effect of living in the now.
So basically, I'm slow.
Leave your comment, I'll think about it in the future.
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~cheers
As if there's something wrong with not just dropping the past like a sack of dirt and just moving on.
Fuckin idiots.