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I was laying back on the couch last night petting
my dog Sasha and listening to Beethoven's Sonata
Op. 27 No. 2 — the famous "Moonlight" sonata,
when I got to thinking about the time in my youth,
the early 70s, when I first listened to that work.
Back then the performance was by Van Cliburn
and not Brendel. But no matter, the same sonata —
sonata quasi una fantasia as Beethoven called it —
and I got to wondering whether if in those days there
had been some sort of time portal that I could look
through, like a cosmic television to the future, if
I would have looked into the portal and seen myself
with my good dog Sasha, and feel too the happiness I
feel now, if I would not have wanted to just jump
forward in time to that given moment — which is
to say my current time.
And what of all the days between then and now?
Would I have been always waiting for that moment
of happiness to arrive? There would of course be
other moments of happiness throughout the span of
my life. But I think that the future vision might
have always been in the background.
I think we should all be granted such a portal
when we are young — a sort of guarantee of some
happy period in our future. Because it's really
not the same just imagining — quasi una fantasia —
that there would be such. Would it not make the
span of years far less difficult if we knew for
certain, through all the tough times, that there
would be some happy time in the future — and to
be able to see it, feel it, something to hang onto?
Sometimes the evenings breed strange thoughts
in the moonlight.
(Photo by Richard Keeling.)
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Nice pic! :DProfound thoughts there, Ed. It would be nice to be assured of a happy time in the future when we are young and often regard what is to come with some trepidation. I would have liked it myself! I guess that's what hopes and dreams are for. Sometimes, though, they are not enough.
Cosmic television… I like that. It's a good term. Associative. Imaginative.
Always weird wondering who we will be in the future as well as who we've been in the past. I wish I had a video diary of my life so I could remember who I've been. Or would that just be embarrassing? :eyes:
I remember, somewhere around 1980. I was counting how many years I will have in year 2000. Thirty one!!! :eyes: Thirty one!? I will be so old, probably look older than my grandparents!!! :eek:For some reason I didn`t want to grow up after that 😛
Would you have changed anything, if you could've seen then what today would be?:smile::heart:
Sorry not to answer all these great comments earlier — I was over in Idaho.Will get back tomorrow. Thanks!:)
@ Richard.@ Darko.@ Naomi.@ Star.I was thinking yesterday that if I would have had that time portal that perhaps along with the good things that I would have seen things that I probably wouldn't or shouldn't see either — physically sick, bald, never married, etc.Might have been depressing. On the other hand if I had seen those things perhaps I could/would have made more of an effort to work on those "bad" areas to come and try to avoid them. Of course then you get into that whole Time Cop thing. And in so trying to change the future I might cancel out a whole group of other positive things along the way.Ah, my brain hurts! :p
@ Martin.Perhaps Time Portals of Mars — ????:)
Thanks! Yeah I think I've talked about "brain damage" before here. :p My problem mainly is concentration, not a lack of it but too much of it, and it makes me really spacey.
Your brain may hurt but at least you have one, a very good one at that. The same cannot be said for all of humanity. :p