Passage

 

    When viewing the experience of passing time, I usually think about how events are perceived. As things progress, events of the past are always viewed in a different way. This is true for historical events, but even more applicable to personal experiences.

    A lot of people often don't slow down and take in what is happening around them. Years pass and most of it can't seem to be remembered by them.  I usually take into account the fact that the human brain really isn't wired to remember things exactly how they happened. A lot of events that people claim to remember so well didn't happen precisely the way they remember and as they get older that memory gets more and more twisted, for better or for worse.

    This kind of made me think about the way people yearn for the past, and how often times those same people looked forward to what the future has to offer. It feels like irony in a sense, how someone can look back on tainted memories and wish for those times to come back while also being excited for change in the future. It makes me wonder if even the people who are so attached to the past know that things weren't the way they remember.

"The past went that-a-way. When faced with a totally new situation, we tend always to attach ourselves to the objects, to the flavor of the most recent past." - McLuhan