“Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.”
Seeing as how things are going, how we've skimmed through physical political 'disagreement' and are currently struggling as a planet to get out of a recession, would this 'statement' still count? Does this for granted-ly mean that after our collective struggling, things can only get better? Or do things have to go catastrophically bad for us to have an equally opposite reaction?
I find myself wondering how it would have been to live through the Great Depression or a War. Would we have been aware that we were living future history?
Have you ever asked yourselves how it feels to see the light at the end of the tunnel, when it comes to something so much bigger than yourself?
And I feel like we're not doing so good, but we're not doing too bad either. Maybe our real depression is being stuck in the middle. OK is not good enough. It's like being indifferent.
Then again, so many 'big' things happened. The first black president was elected, and that was a step forward. Movie and music legends died and we're going through a pandemic. I don't know what to think.
Maybe we are living future history. Maybe we're living through something significant and we don't even know it.
Do you not find this entirely frustrating, trying to find your place and never getting answers? How you always end up with more questions? I just don't like the idea of living through a grey shaded patch in time, through something oblivious and unimportant.
Is it still possible to know your identity amidst people who don't know where they stand?
Does it matter anymore?
About Me
- Strawberry Daiquiri
- I'm a logophile with a latent talent for Foot in Mouth Disorder. I have a fetish for glitter which I never wear. I love reading book titles (and their contents), wearing costumes, playing music, looking at paintings, taking off abruptly and experiencing life, living places and meeting people. I live high, I dream big and I pursue happiness.
4 comments:
where's that quote from? I know I've read it somewhere, in some book. But I cannot remember which one!
'Choke' - Palahniuk. It's the book I lent you, An. Probably underlined. You know how I scribble all over my books. Feel free to add your own.
Yeah, I know it's the book you lent me! Lol, in fact i did take note of that comment. No wonder it seemed familiar, I'm still reading the same book!
Slow Reader!!! :P We need to nerd out and go book shopping. I have nothing good to read, no good book to whip out of my bag and save me, leaving me no choice but to interact.
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