Modern Life is Rubbish

“To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage and kindness… The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.” ~ Howard Zinn.

Friday, April 20, 2012

Afterwards...

A curious person asked,

"I felt something beautiful which seems to me to be profound and life-changing. I experienced something which seems to me to be important, big.

Then, I tell myself I will never, ever forget it. I even remind myself of it.

Time passes by. It has been so many years after that beautiful and profound feeling. Many years after that important and big experience. Nothing remains of it now. So many things had disappeared.

Why experience so much so that I will forget it afterwards? Why feel so much so that I will not remember it afterwards?"

After what seemed like a long time, Memory replied, "you can remember the feelings and experiences only "when" you have them. One day, all of a sudden, when those feelings and experiences find you again, you will see that they have been absent a long, long time. You will then realized something."

"What is it that i will realized?"

"You can know that you have not remembered those feelings and experiences not at that very moment, but afterwards. These moments of remembrances are very short. And time will make sure you forget about them long before you remember them again."