My Remembrance of The Things Past
frank 发表于2008年01月28日 20:35 阅读(70) 评论(8)
分类： 个人日记 权限: 公开
I haven't really read this novel yet, but i do like its name. I just can't get rid of this beautiful title out of my mind,which i glanced in a magazine a few weeks ago, and i do remember a lot of people and a lot of stuff by it.
I don't like such a thing as rememberance myself though.
On the one hand, through remembrance can people seek for some consolation from those things past. It is really easy for people to get engrossed in those beautiful things that could endow him or her with dignity or self-esteem, which usually do not exist in their hearts any longer or just keep fading away because of the unsatisfying reality as time goes by. A great shelter, a cache to be exact, can be easily founded in those happy memories.
However, consolation accounts to dodge or evasion from reality to a great extent, which can become very much addictive, especially when people's lives are infested with various difficulties and problems they cannot solve.
Unfortunately, the happy memories can not be changed because they belong to the past, and they can not be made to happen again that easiy. Oweing to them, people can just conjure up all kinds of images and stories so as to make themselves feel comfortable and relaxed like they used to be. As a matter of fact, these illusions can evaporate simply and cannot enbetter the current situations. Contrarily they are a great waste of time and energy. On this planet, i believe, nothing is worth this kind of waste.
On the other hand, the things past can refer to completely different things according to differnet situations and personalities. Usually people contrive to gain wonderful experience from the past so that they won't get the feeling that their lives are so empty and pathetic.They always deceive themselves with such words as my life used to be that wonderful or i have been there. Ironically, when people are decorating their life with wonderful experience, they have to pretend to be good and nice in the real world, and at the same time they are still surrounded by the existing problems. I have to admit that it is not an easy job and i really admire this kind of people.
There is another kind of people that really deserves to point out.They are as pathetic and despisable as the former kind. They do not calm themselves with the happy memories. They prefer the wounds and scars on their bodies or in their minds, with the aid of which they can ensure themselves that they are strong and brave enough whenever they want to, especially when they encounter new troubles or suffer from more setbacks even failures. The excuse that i survived a lot to get here does works in some certain situations, and even like a charm sometimes.
But the point is that what kind of things past comes into our minds does depend on our minds, the feeble ones or the strong ones. The process of this kind of self-consolation is so subjective that it'll turn into to be deceptive.In this case it gets dangerous and harmful. What is worse, for ordinary people, it is hard and even kindof impossible to leave behind the things past in every sense of the word. What will happen to the person who can really do this. I cannot imagine, for i haven't met this kind of people before myself.
And i have to confess i am one of the ordinary people. I guess that is why i keep writing some stuff and reading other people's stuff.
The world spins madly on. I really like this line from a song of an indie band.
There is no intermission, there is no break, and there even is no time or chance to regret or exalt our lives. So, in my opinion, what we need to do is just get our minds cleansed once in a while or regularly, throw away any kinds of craps and burdens, and just walk on.
I think i am trying to get there, which itself, by the way, is a trick of self-consolation.
分类： 个人日记 权限: 公开
I haven't really read this novel yet, but i do like its name. I just can't get rid of this beautiful title out of my mind,which i glanced in a magazine a few weeks ago, and i do remember a lot of people and a lot of stuff by it.
I don't like such a thing as rememberance myself though.
On the one hand, through remembrance can people seek for some consolation from those things past. It is really easy for people to get engrossed in those beautiful things that could endow him or her with dignity or self-esteem, which usually do not exist in their hearts any longer or just keep fading away because of the unsatisfying reality as time goes by. A great shelter, a cache to be exact, can be easily founded in those happy memories.
However, consolation accounts to dodge or evasion from reality to a great extent, which can become very much addictive, especially when people's lives are infested with various difficulties and problems they cannot solve.
Unfortunately, the happy memories can not be changed because they belong to the past, and they can not be made to happen again that easiy. Oweing to them, people can just conjure up all kinds of images and stories so as to make themselves feel comfortable and relaxed like they used to be. As a matter of fact, these illusions can evaporate simply and cannot enbetter the current situations. Contrarily they are a great waste of time and energy. On this planet, i believe, nothing is worth this kind of waste.
On the other hand, the things past can refer to completely different things according to differnet situations and personalities. Usually people contrive to gain wonderful experience from the past so that they won't get the feeling that their lives are so empty and pathetic.They always deceive themselves with such words as my life used to be that wonderful or i have been there. Ironically, when people are decorating their life with wonderful experience, they have to pretend to be good and nice in the real world, and at the same time they are still surrounded by the existing problems. I have to admit that it is not an easy job and i really admire this kind of people.
There is another kind of people that really deserves to point out.They are as pathetic and despisable as the former kind. They do not calm themselves with the happy memories. They prefer the wounds and scars on their bodies or in their minds, with the aid of which they can ensure themselves that they are strong and brave enough whenever they want to, especially when they encounter new troubles or suffer from more setbacks even failures. The excuse that i survived a lot to get here does works in some certain situations, and even like a charm sometimes.
But the point is that what kind of things past comes into our minds does depend on our minds, the feeble ones or the strong ones. The process of this kind of self-consolation is so subjective that it'll turn into to be deceptive.In this case it gets dangerous and harmful. What is worse, for ordinary people, it is hard and even kindof impossible to leave behind the things past in every sense of the word. What will happen to the person who can really do this. I cannot imagine, for i haven't met this kind of people before myself.
And i have to confess i am one of the ordinary people. I guess that is why i keep writing some stuff and reading other people's stuff.
The world spins madly on. I really like this line from a song of an indie band.
There is no intermission, there is no break, and there even is no time or chance to regret or exalt our lives. So, in my opinion, what we need to do is just get our minds cleansed once in a while or regularly, throw away any kinds of craps and burdens, and just walk on.
I think i am trying to get there, which itself, by the way, is a trick of self-consolation.
