Thought for the day - December 2, 2000

Subject: Thought for the day - December 2, 2000
From: katlaughing
Date: 02 Dec 00 - 01:36 AM

How did it already get to be December? How in the world did the year go by so fast that we are now almost face-to-face with the real start of the New Millennium?

Rhetorical and almost daily thoughts of mine, just lingering in the background, reminding me of this passage of time; causing me to reflect, which seems to be appropriate for the winter season, although I am sure it would feel differently if I'd grown up "down under." As it is, Springtime would just never feel quite right to me for these kinds of reflective pauses brought on by somber Wintertime.

I don't mind the season, just wondering about that old passage of Time. I've always tried to reject society's ageist conventions and still do, but I can see the mass consciousness is a powerful force, telling us at every turn how old we are, how we must defy age with beauty secrets, pumped up unrealistic bodies, etc. Phaw! I turn off the TV, the radio, skip over the ads in the paper and say "F*** all!" to the common beat; listen to my own, passing in what is for my highest good, as long as I don't get in the way.

Merry December is here!

katlaughing

Subject: RE: Thought for the day - December 2, 2000
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 02 Dec 00 - 06:36 AM

Take time to stop and sniff the evergreens, eh, kat?

Subject: RE: Thought for the day - December 2, 2000
From: katlaughing
Date: 02 Dec 00 - 10:15 AM

That's it, Animaterra! *smile*

Subject: RE: Thought for the day - December 2, 2000
From: Peter T.
Date: 02 Dec 00 - 12:30 PM

I was thinking the exact same thought this morning. Where on earth did 2000 go?

I barely had time to get over my bitching about last year's Christmas decorations, and here they are again. One day I fear they will put them up and they will never come back down again. Actually, I notice that, in suburbia and in rural areas, the whole year has now become completely taken over by a sequence of commercialised holidays -- the calendar is firmly fixed around shopping for the next holiday. This is particularly true if you have small children -- the school system has become one long series of holiday projects. Ordinary time seems to have disappeared.

yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: Thought for the day - December 2, 2000
From: Ebbie
Date: 02 Dec 00 - 01:38 PM

kat, recently I've formed another view. Consider how in a novel, at the beginning there is great detail and lingering over activities and philosophies and relationships. Then later in the book when that is well established, the author skims over those and time passes and s/he hits only the highlights?

Well, that's where I am! (Besides, I suspect that someone somewhere has their finger on my 'fast forward' button.)

The only antidote, I think, is to stay 'in the moment'. When I can do that, I slow the passage of time.

Ebbie

Subject: RE: Thought for the day - December 2, 2000
From: Hollowfox
Date: 02 Dec 00 - 02:56 PM

I'm with yoy, Kat!

Subject: RE: Thought for the day - December 2, 2000
From: SINSULL
Date: 02 Dec 00 - 09:48 PM

Well Kat, I guess this means that the kitties have settled in and all is well in Kat's world. I pity women who obsess over looking young. So many of them end up looking foolish or freakish. All the facelifts and buttlifts in the world aren't going to disguise those hands that have survived 50+ years.
But time does seem to fly by as I get older. Tiny babies are graduating college and it leaves me confused. Still happy to be me though.

Subject: RE: Thought for the day - December 2, 2000
From: GUEST,Dave (the ancient mariner)
Date: 02 Dec 00 - 10:18 PM

The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers:
Little we see in nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
This sea that bares her bosom to the moon;
The winds that will be howling at all hours,
And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers;
For this, for everything, we are out of tune;
It moves us not,-Great God! I'd rather be
A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn;
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,
Have glimpses that would make me less folorn;
Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea;
Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.
Wordsworth....

Subject: RE: Thought for the day - December 2, 2000
From: Matt_R
Date: 02 Dec 00 - 10:22 PM

Ah, 2000. Began in love, went to sadness, went to love beyond my imagination, ends in sadness. So much for another year.

Subject: RE: Thought for the day - December 2, 2000
From: katlaughing
Date: 03 Dec 00 - 12:17 AM

DaveTAM, thanks so much for those words...captures what I was feeling exactly, except that I am, thankfully out of tune with the rush of society and do notice those those things he laments.

Sins, me, too, except that I also reject the notion that 50+ has to look a certain way just because society says so, i.e. my eye doctor who keeps insisting I will need bifocals someday! He started in my early 40's and continues, even though I've still a few to go to 50! There's got to be a happy balance there somewhere, while not burying one's head in denial, yet also not accepting the dictates that say we must be decrepit by such and such an age.

Thanks, everyone...

luvyakat

Subject: RE: Thought for the day - December 2, 2000
From: Ebbie
Date: 03 Dec 00 - 12:38 AM

(Aside) Matt, remember "it's better to have loved and lost..." And love is never wasted. Each time we love, we learn to love better.

Ebbie