We've got a throwaway culture. People, plastic, pop bottles, principles.
Everything's disposable. The nation's suffering from memory disorder.
Two hundered years ago? Impossible to imagine.
A hundred years ago? Too hard to think about.
Fifty years ago? Ancient history.
A movie made ten years ago is considered old.
A TV series made five years ago is a classic.
Most books have three months shelf life.
Sports organizations no sooner build stadiums than they blow them up so they can replace them with newer, uglier ones.
The grade school I went to was torn down and replaced by a strip mall.
Our culture's so obsessed with what's new, we distroy the past and pretend it never happened.
I want to write an essay that convinces people that the past is important.
I want my readers feel it and smell it and appreciate it.
- Creepers (David Morrel)
Everything's disposable. The nation's suffering from memory disorder.
Two hundered years ago? Impossible to imagine.
A hundred years ago? Too hard to think about.
Fifty years ago? Ancient history.
A movie made ten years ago is considered old.
A TV series made five years ago is a classic.
Most books have three months shelf life.
Sports organizations no sooner build stadiums than they blow them up so they can replace them with newer, uglier ones.
The grade school I went to was torn down and replaced by a strip mall.
Our culture's so obsessed with what's new, we distroy the past and pretend it never happened.
I want to write an essay that convinces people that the past is important.
I want my readers feel it and smell it and appreciate it.
- Creepers (David Morrel)
12 comments:
How very true!
#Rakesh Vanamali
hey thanks!
is this ur writing or by david morrell?
#Anonymous
david morrel ofcourse, its mentioned in the end aint it :)
Junius that was deep!
One question- Do u ever go back to your older posts and re-live the moments that prompted u to write them or you continue to thrive on the new?
Me- I dont go back to my Older posts nemore!
#iron_maiden
/- One question- Do u ever go back to your older posts and re-live the moments that prompted u to write them or you continue to thrive on the new?
okay, I dont generally read my older posts. "That prompted u to write them" this term is wrong for most of the posts i write because i write random stuff, i am really lazy :)
/-Me- I dont go back to my Older posts nemore!
i am not hesitant to read my old posts, it is just that i dont read them, i have no particular motivation to go back and read :)
Wish you could just check couple of typos...
#Anonymous
your suggestion is semantically correct, but then, how many people read my blog? and isnt the underlying feelings that are more important?
i accept that whatever is good is by the author, whatever mistakes, those are mine. Thanks!
I am from your past can you guess who ? :-P
#Anonymous
so many people come to my mimd, i am confused :)
who?
well very true....but sometimes it is better way to forget our past...:)
#Deepti
still better to accept it completely, which is as good as forgetting it..this is not always possible though
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