MEMORIES AS A MOTIVATION FOR LIVING TODAY
February 14th 2007 21:41
What moves you...really gets "under your skin", brings up emotions, are activating events that trigger your thought processes?
For me, at the moment, its a combination of external stimuli that stirs up my feelings, so much so that I realise that I am living, breathing, in the here and now and not just in the space inside my head. A song from the past, a line of dialogue in a movie or TV program, a paragraph in a news paper article or magazine, (cant quite do books at the moment), bit too much of a long term commitment. I find myself reminiscing a lot, remembering days past, then wondering how I can recapture the zest for being in the day I once possessed...........and somedays, only somedays, I find the impetus to make new memories......today, now.......
For me, memories arent purely cerebral, I often feel sensations, as though the cells of the body have stored these along with the thoughts, to be experienced another day.....
Last night I was fortunate enough to be given a free ticket to see Tim Finn in concert.
Tim was brilliant, the band was tight, slick and professional, the repetoire spanned new material from his latest album and revisited his Split Enz and Crowded House days.
Memories came flooding back of long ago nights in smoky,(remember those days), crowded venues watching both of those bands...27 or 8 years ago....Cabbage Patch at the Queensland Hotel.....I remember it as though it was yesterday......the good, the bad and the vomiting in the loo after too much tequila, it all came rushing back to fill my mind, and yet concurrently I found myself caught up the atmosphere of the night, last night, a brand new experience, unique, a few hours in time, never to be lived again, except in my mind.
This morning, the rifts and melodies are still ringing in my ears, and today I'm heading out to have what I hope will be a productive day, and hopefully somewhere along the way, something of some significance will happen that creates an impression in my mind, a new memory to be looked back on someday, and if it doesnt, that's all right as well.
For me, at the moment, its a combination of external stimuli that stirs up my feelings, so much so that I realise that I am living, breathing, in the here and now and not just in the space inside my head. A song from the past, a line of dialogue in a movie or TV program, a paragraph in a news paper article or magazine, (cant quite do books at the moment), bit too much of a long term commitment. I find myself reminiscing a lot, remembering days past, then wondering how I can recapture the zest for being in the day I once possessed...........and somedays, only somedays, I find the impetus to make new memories......today, now.......
For me, memories arent purely cerebral, I often feel sensations, as though the cells of the body have stored these along with the thoughts, to be experienced another day.....
Last night I was fortunate enough to be given a free ticket to see Tim Finn in concert.
Tim was brilliant, the band was tight, slick and professional, the repetoire spanned new material from his latest album and revisited his Split Enz and Crowded House days.
Memories came flooding back of long ago nights in smoky,(remember those days), crowded venues watching both of those bands...27 or 8 years ago....Cabbage Patch at the Queensland Hotel.....I remember it as though it was yesterday......the good, the bad and the vomiting in the loo after too much tequila, it all came rushing back to fill my mind, and yet concurrently I found myself caught up the atmosphere of the night, last night, a brand new experience, unique, a few hours in time, never to be lived again, except in my mind.
This morning, the rifts and melodies are still ringing in my ears, and today I'm heading out to have what I hope will be a productive day, and hopefully somewhere along the way, something of some significance will happen that creates an impression in my mind, a new memory to be looked back on someday, and if it doesnt, that's all right as well.
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